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.

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

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

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

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

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?

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

I got my own back.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

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

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I will not be triumphed over.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

This is not a bad life.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

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

The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?