you must enter a relationship with yourself before anyone else

what drives you crazy what keeps you up at night

you must understand the difference between want and need you may want that boy but you certainly don't need him

do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you

if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise

it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations

to be soft is to be powerful

accept yourself as you were designed

other women's bodies are not our battlegrounds

i have what i have and i am happy i've lost what i've lost and i am still happy

if the hurt comes so will the happiness

how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you

you are your own soul mate

some people are so bitter to them you must be kindest

if you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else

you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first

I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here.

I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.

Every time you make a fruit crisp for me, you are my favorite person in the world. It's something delicious and warm, right out of the oven. I mean, what more could anyone want? And all you're doing is taking the best fruit of the season, putting a crumb topping on it and putting it in the oven.

our True Nature Is Love. Theres Nothing You Can Do About It.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I have a big problem with Islam.

Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

It's very hard for me to say I'm sorry... but I do.

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.

Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there in a car.

American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever seen.

Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.

In truth, we exist and survive, not because of the ego, but in spite of it.

First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.

You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.