Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

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.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

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.

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.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I’m the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

My fat never made me less money.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

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

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

I don’t kiss nobody’s butt.

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

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

Study men, not historians.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‚I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.‘

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.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.