Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.

In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.

I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!

The idea that you wake up and it happens that you're Queen, it's amazing but you could all be Queens if you imagined it.

You can't be said to make a choice when you only have one option.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

God has virtually been made an illegal subject in that state institution most devoted to the shaping of the minds and values of our people - the public schools.