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

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

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 am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

Character is destiny.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

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.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

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

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

If you deserve it, go get it.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

To make headway, improve your head.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

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.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

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.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

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

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I will not be triumphed over.

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

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.