There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‚Oh. That’s interesting,‘ than try to fit in.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

I will not be triumphed over.

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

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

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.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

I don’t need you to be funny. I don’t want to be entertained.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

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.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

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

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

For a creative writer possession of the ‚truth‘ is less important than emotional sincerity.

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

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.

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

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

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

True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.