Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I’m about being the best.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

Humble people ask for help.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Travel teaches toleration.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

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.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.