I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

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

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

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

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I got my own back.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

I love imperfections.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

I’m a can-do girl.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Giving up cannot be an option.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

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

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

What we think, we become.

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?

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

I’ve been blessed in that regard through and through. So I’m just thankful for this opportunity to play the game that I love and share that with the world.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.