Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

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

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

I came up from a difficult background.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

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

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

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.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

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.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Bring them on.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

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.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

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.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.