I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.

After you have the basics down it's all mental.

I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

Where there is asakti [infatuation], there accusations cannot refrain from happening. That is indeed the nature of asakti [infatuation].

Mind chatter: a clatter of left-brain rains of doubt, worry, guilt, shame in a thunderstorm of fear. Forgive the chatter, clear your mind.

The enemy uses those things your insecure about. Free yourself and take your power back by being secure in who you are - flaws and all.

I'll take thy word for faith not ask thine oath Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

Especially being a woman of color, sometimes it's hard for to put our foot down. You work with a lot of men, and they'll be like, "She has Joyner the best reputation".

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

I have like 10 actors and 100 aliens in the film [Valerian]. And they come from the four corners of the universe. Some of them are liquid. Some of them are just [so visually] crazy.

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

There are any number of things that would be detrimental to your career. Everyone's really afraid.