I am fearless.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

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

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

I do believe in self-help.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

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.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

Young people can create beautiful things.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

Only the insecure strive for security.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

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.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.