The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.

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!

If you mean to scare women away from you, that speech can’t possibly work. Those threats? If I weren’t trying to hire you I’d be taking my clothes off right now.

Sending everything they touch to the grave is what they do, but they don't see it as a grave mistake, yet.

We all work together to pump each other up. Before the show [Aladdin], we give each other a pound on the back, like a sports team.

Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.

People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.

He's a specialist in failure.

There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

I was trying so hard. I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When I watch those episodes, it's disgusting. My performances were horrible.