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!

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.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

I always wanted to create a collection inspired by sports. I never played sports, maybe that's why it intrigues me.

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

I didn't hit the ball like I was 46. But I putted like I was 66.

We know we should have won that game. But that doesn't mean we look at it as a revenge game. It means we think we should have won; and now, let's correct it.

The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the face over it.

I talk to the universe all the time.

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it.