Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

I was raised to be independent.

I came up from a difficult background.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

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

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

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.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

I look after people.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

Boldness be my friend.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.

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

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don’t like that. It’s great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you’re worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.