You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.

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!

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Education is one of the greatest gift for mankind. Each one of us must seek this enlightenment.

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

I would love to work on a Bond film.

I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.

Things won’t go perfect. It’s all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.

How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?

If I ran the Web, you could email dead people.