You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

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!

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

I like the concept of wearing in instead of wearing out.

Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel.

I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to?