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

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

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.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

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

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

Every summer’s mine.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

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.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Character is power.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

I don’t have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

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

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

You are victors, not victims!

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.