You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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!

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise.

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

Take that chance :even though this is hard, you'll get it in a peace.Leave that chance :i know it's easy, but you will always walk in regret

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.