The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

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!

delays, closed doors are not setbacks but setups God uses to move you forward

The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.

She's...just a girl, you know. Like most girls: something and nothing.

Don't make your kids look hot and dirty and sexy when they're 5-years old! It's really not the place or the time. You're about 11 years early.

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

I'm embarrassed for us as a free society that we actually want people punished for saying things we don't like.

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

We ought to be bragging about Florida!

I don't want to be a star - most of the ones I know are too unhappy.