I will not be triumphed over.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Silence is a source of great strength.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

Women don’t try to use me.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

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

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

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.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

There is no substitute for victory.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

I do believe in self-help.

What is true belongs to me!

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.

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.