Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.