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

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

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

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

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

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

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.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

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

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

I’m a can-do girl.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

We forge the chains we wear in life.

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.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.