Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

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!

Sometimes I notice I'm demented, especially at sunset.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met the inventor of the snowboard, Steve Sanders, Mr. Burton's brother.

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened