There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

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!

Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.

He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask.

Principles are what people have instead of God.

We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.

We don't enter relationships hoping to create an extraordinary existence; we come to them to share one with someone else.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

Happiness and bacteria have one thing in common; they multiply by dividing!

Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.