When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

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 danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

When you fall in love, two people are mad for each other, When these two people get married, others say that they are made for each other, After marriage, the same two people are mad at each other.

In acceptance, I am grounded. In vulnerability, I am strong. In love, I am whole.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.