I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

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

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

I was raised to be independent.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

‚Born this Way‘ is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

If you deserve it, go get it.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

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

I can express myself.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

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

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.