I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

There is nothing more valuable than the value you place on yourself”.

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that, on 'Fading of the Cries.'