I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

It is natural to die as to be born.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn’t have to write for my living.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

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

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.