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

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Now I do whatever I want.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Solitude is independence.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

I look after people.

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

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

The assertion that ‚all men are created equal‘ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.