If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

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.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

I let the American people down.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?

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

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

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.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

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.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

God helps those who help themselves.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

The buck stops here!

I do believe in self-help.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

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.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

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 knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

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