The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

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!

Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.

Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.

President Obama went to India, South Korea, then Japan. He's going to keep travelling until he finds his birth certificate.

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.