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

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Character is power.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘

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

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

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.

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

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

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

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

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

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

I do believe in self-help.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

It’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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.

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

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.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

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

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

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