The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

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!

Respectable Protestant denominations retreated inside...leaving...unaffiliated madwomen to evangelize alfresco...

Baz arched an elegant brow. "Are you going to snog the Humdrum-is that your plan? Because he's eleven. And he looks just like you. That's both vain and deviant, Snow, even for you.

I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.

People don't know who I am, and that's not a bad thing at all from my end.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

The best villains are the nicest guys in person.

United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

I'm a Cancer, which means I'm maternal and emotional. So in relationships I'm screwed.