Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

I’m not a centerfold.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

I have the space and liberty to create.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

Forgotten is forgiven.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

I’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

A true man hates no one.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

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

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

I got my own back.

I am fearless.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.