If we are not free, no one will respect us.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

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

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Bring them on.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

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

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

God helps those who help themselves.

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 know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

He who is brave is free.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

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.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.