We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

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.

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!

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

I can't explain why your name seems so familiar to me, or why it feels like I've heard your voice a thousand times before, but I can explain this ~ your the type of chaos Id bleed for.

I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

So don't be average. Don't be good. Don't be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.

The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.

Modern morality is all about perception.

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.

Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

Action often precedes the feeling.