I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

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

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it’s saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

The only way I’d be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

I have always been that girl in the back who doesn’t say anything.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

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.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

Never confuse motion with action.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

I defy gravity.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

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

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

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

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.