Though she be but little, she is fierce.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.

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.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

I’m never nervous.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

From caring comes courage.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

So when I speak in front of thousands, tens of thousands of people, I don’t really get nervous because I know what I want to say and I know what message I want to give.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

God does not play dice.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

I do believe in self-help.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.