Enemies are so stimulating.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

Always do whatever’s next.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

I was becoming post-ideological.

Big results require big ambitions.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Never complain. Never explain.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

The only shame is to have none.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.