When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

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!

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

A true friend pays attention without seeking it.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.

I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure.