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?

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn’t matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

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

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

I want the world to see my body.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

How can we help President Obama?

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

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

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It’s hard to get off of that equilibrium.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That’s my mission.

I’ve been invited to do ‚Dancing With the Stars‘ three times, but Lifetime said no.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.