The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

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!

Kiss with your soul, where lips can never reach. Touch with your eyes, penetrate deep. Love every part, fully, complete.

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

The water glittered under the moon’s careful watch, and, in the distance, steeples cut stark black silhouettes into the landscape of the distant city.

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.

Gender equality is more successful than armed force.

A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.