I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

People want you to fail.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

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.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

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.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.