The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

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 traditional Confucian structure that invoked ideals of perfect human virtue for harmony must incorporate the rule of law for the modern era.

Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining, ’ it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

I'm in love with a fairytale, even though it hurts. 'Cause I don't care if I lose my mind; Im already cursed.

FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

Occasionally I will audition for a big overseas movie, but that's it.

I was always handsome under all the fat.

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?