Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

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

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

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

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

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

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Every President wants to do right.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

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.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Better is the enemy of good.

I came up from a difficult background.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

The doer alone learneth.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.