I can express myself.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

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.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

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.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

It’s not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

Character is power.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I’m so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

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

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

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

Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.