We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.

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!

The only friend you can ever have that understands you better than anyone else is you”.

Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.

Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what youre going to do next.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.