The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

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!

Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.

Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.

His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.

The license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.

Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.

They say eyes clear with age.