I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

I am fearless.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

I’m never nervous.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

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.

I was raised to be independent.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

I’m not a sheep.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

I’m not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

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.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

I don’t want followers.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.