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

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

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

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

I’m a can-do girl.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

I like George Carlin’s jokes. I like his humor. He’s one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

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

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

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 want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.