Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

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

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

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

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

I love women with attitude.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

I was becoming post-ideological.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

I don’t want followers.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I grew up in a funny way.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.