The times when we could fully count on others are over to a certain extent.

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.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.

When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

I think that we are not in the position that we used to be. I think we were a very powerful, very wealthy country. And we're a poor country now. We're a debtor nation.

Believe in what you can do and be not deterred by what others say.

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.

People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.