To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

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!

...knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control.

Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages.You had better run from me.My words are fire.

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.

No town can hope prosperity and trade, unless the press shall vigorously aid.

My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.

I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.

Sexy, to me, doesn't have anything to do with beautiful.