It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

Of course, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture… but we need both systemic change and individual change.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

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

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

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

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Now I do whatever I want.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

I’m a free spirit.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

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

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

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

The only shame is to have none.

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.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

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

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

I’m not a sheep.

Don’t ever play yourself.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.