Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

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 skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

I don't think there's anything Craig Ferguson could say that would make me laugh. Ad-libbing is not the same as entertainment.

At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.

I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.