You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

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!

Time is God’s gift to us as humans

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

If we had directions, it wouldn't be life. It would be an assignment. Grunt work.

No matter what we are or who created us, we’re all energy. And energy that becomes bound together by love cannot be torn apart. Not by time. Not by grief and pain. Not even the veil of death.

She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.

I have an appetite for silence.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.

A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind.