Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."Winston Churchill: "Madame, i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!"(Exchange with Winston Churchill)

Everyone can be corrupted, even the great and the good.

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.

Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say it. ~Luna Lovegood

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.

Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

Stay consistent with your message and who you are.