My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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

It’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

I only want my work to make people happy.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

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.

Everybody likes a compliment.

What is once well done is done forever.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Hope is a waking dream.

I already am a product.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.