Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

I do believe in self-help.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

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

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Only you can control your future.

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.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

Never confuse motion with action.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Power is competence.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

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

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

To make headway, improve your head.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

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

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

One must steer, not talk.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

It’s not enough to train today’s workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow’s workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

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

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.