My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

As we’ve seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities – and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

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

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

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

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.