A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

I came up from a difficult background.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

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.

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.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don’t like that. It’s great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you’re worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

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

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.