No man is free who is not master of himself.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

I am fearless.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Freedom is relative.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

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

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

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

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

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

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

I got my own back.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

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

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

Nobody is my boss.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.