Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

I can express myself.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

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.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Boldness be my friend.

Every man is his own hell.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

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

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Forget the past.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Men must know their limitations.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

I came up from a difficult background.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Words are loaded pistols.

Before all else, be armed.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.