Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

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!

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

We must have the attitude that every child in America - regardless of where they're raised or how they're born - can learn.

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.

Your past, present, and future are taken care of as you put your trust in Jesus.

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

If I kissed my wife in public, I'd lose the next election.