What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

Mind over mattress.

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That’s my mission.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

I always liked different things, rare things.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I am fearless.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.