I was raised to be independent.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

My future is righteousness.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Fear is exciting for me.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

I’m a can-do girl.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.