I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It’s legal to follow me. It’s legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can’t call the police or ask them to leave.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

Women don’t try to use me.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

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

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Life must be lived as play.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

I want the world to see my body.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Yes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Young people can create beautiful things.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

I’ll die a crazy old man!