One man with courage is a majority.

One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I’m going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

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

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

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

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

I want the world to see my body.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.