My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I want the world to see my body.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Being seventy is not a sin.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

Fear is real, but so is love.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

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

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Now I do whatever I want.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

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

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

A woman has the age she deserves.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

I came up from a difficult background.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.