Power given up is power given away.

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

Christmas

The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point and to go directly to that point looking neither to the right nor the left.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

Unless the chairman decides to sack me, I won't be quitting.

I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.

Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.

I'm not perfect. I am not Iron Man.

To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be done; and when it is done, the world has in it one less candidate for misery.

Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.