Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

To create something you must be something.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

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

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

I have good days and bad days.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

I already am a product.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

I’m not a natural born performer.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.