The sun is gone, but I have a light.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

I’m not a bad person.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

In art the best is good enough.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

To create something you must be something.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

I’m a can-do girl.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.