I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them – they are individual and stylish.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

I just want to be myself.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

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

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

We are all special cases.

I’m confident with my ability.

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

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

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.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.