You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Our work is never over.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

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

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

He who is brave is free.

I got my own back.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

I always entertain great hopes.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Boldness be my friend.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

The self is hateful.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

God’s desire is that we excel.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

You fail only if you stop writing.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.