I always advocate to young women that if we don't do this for ourselves, no one else is going to. We have to have a voice.

It's okay to be you. You don't have to try to be anybody else. Whatever you are, however you are, it's fine. Nobody's perfect.

I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.

Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there.

The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.

I know I'm flawed - but perfect is boring anyway! Flawed is good!

As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl.

I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me.

I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that.

When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute the world changed for me.

At one point in your life you start to understand that all what really matters is the love you give and the love you receive.

Children born of Spirit have one Spiritual Father.

Life is like a painting you reflect the image based on your feeling, emotion, character, attitude and how you made it.

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.

What enables me to believe in anything is hope.

If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.

All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that I've worked with for years and years.