Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Nobody is my boss.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

It’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

If I can be a leader, I will.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

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 are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

A person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

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.