Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.