I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

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.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, "I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth." Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, "Yes, I deserve it."

This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.

The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place to examine the social mores and the economic and political climates. In a way, the autobiography becomes history as well as the story of one person, for it becomes the story of a family or the story of the state or nation.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.