Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

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!

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

Go to faeries for gossip about vampires, to werewolves for gossip about faeries, and do not gossip about werewolves, because they try to bite your face off: that was Magnus's motto.

It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.

i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

Every generation blames the generation before them.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook.

I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil.