The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being.

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!

You're a beautiful girl If you show the slightest interest in Alec, he'll want to go out with you. I know I would.

We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

Men suck. - Not all men. Just the really good ones.

Nobody, nobody, perhaps in the history of politics was worse to women or abused women more than Bill Clinton.

You best believe that I often tend to surpass what the rest achieve.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.