I’m not a centerfold.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

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

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

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

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.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

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

Only the insecure strive for security.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‚one size fits all‘ standard for happiness.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

I came up from a difficult background.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

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!

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Only the educated are free.

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

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

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

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.

God has entrusted me with myself.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.