This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

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!

It will be very fair to say that the moments of sincere laughing are the very best moments of life!

I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.

The Only Good Greed Is Greed For Enlightening Experiences

I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

The fool knows after he has suffered.

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.