A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

I’m totally myself.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?