Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

No authority is higher than reality.

The best mirror is an old friend.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Action conquers fear.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

We will not know unless we begin.

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.

I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could pick up dimes.

Dignity and respect has to do with ... your personal power to make a difference by being true to the best within you and letting that truth shine through your words and actions.

Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant as the years multiply.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

All's fair in love and war

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.

The Winans have been some of my favorite people, and Marvin certainly has a real anointing when he preaches and sings; he's a great interpreter of my music.

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

We're seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that's quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance - using the Internet, using computers - to prove themselves very quickly. So I think the mobility story will be a quite complicated one.

How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?

My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.

I've never been one for sitting on beaches.