If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

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

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

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.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

You should never give up your inner self.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

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.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

The reward of suffering is experience.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.