If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.

We need much less than we think we need.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Life loves the liver of it.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.