The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

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!

But like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

To me, that's the ultimate isolation - to be separated from my own mind.

I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.

With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from.

Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.