My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

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

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

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

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.