Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

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!

He'd gone from sixteen to seventy-five in a matter of seconds, but the old-man smell happened instantly, like boom. Congratulations! You stink!

How you react doesn’t tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God's fire. Which is it?

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.

These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.