The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

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!

The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound.

I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.

Lend.” “Lend?” Raquel asked. “Yes, as in, lend me your self.” He shimmered into Raquel again. “Why not Borrow?” I asked. “Better yet, Steal?

Id never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.