For me, I try and be authentic in my choices and follow my instincts, and I think it's a valuable message for women in today's society to learn to love yourself.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

Today is sacred - for it will never come again. What could be more important than living this day with attention and the intention to be of benefit, to the best of your ability, to all you encounter?

Some people want to know their future

Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ...

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

If I'm elected president, I am going to keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of America.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.