You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.

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!

To the romantic soul, the rituals of Valentine's Day echo every day of the year.

God knows I'm no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do

[My mother] made the money to send me.

Oh my god... Kerry is boring even when Bush is reading him.

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.