Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

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!

Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death

It is uncertain where Death will await you

I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

I think I am a good role model, and a lot of mothers come up to me and they're really happy, and I think if any girl follows their dreams then anything can happen to them.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.

I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough.

An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill