The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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!

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

Let's Not Just Be Heroes! Let's Be Heroes Who Lead!

Without love what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.

Grant that I may experience the power of Thy Word before I deliver it.

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us.

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.