We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

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!

On a day like today, there's no friend like a book.

Don't live your life like an attempt, because if you fail there is no second attempt.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

If everybody were a guy, the human race could easily get by on less than one twentieth the current number of shoes.

I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives.

A diary means yes indeed.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way.

I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!