My fat never made me less money.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

I can express myself.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

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

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

I don’t regret anything.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‚I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.‘

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

Some people would like me to be round again.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.

To lead people walk behind them.

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

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

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

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.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

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 guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.