I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

Touring is hard on the body.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

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

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

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

Sleep is the best meditation.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

I’ve always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Boldness be my friend.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

Belief creates the actual fact.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.