I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.

When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

A creative person has to #‎ create .

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

Fill your heart with pure love

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

Believe in your potential, not your past.

I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe, and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots even request permission to do that.

The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life.

I cannot, and will not, vote for Senator John McCain, as a matter of conscience.

All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

I touched emotions I've never tapped in my entire life. I've heard people say, 'I hope this movie doesn't glamorise drugs.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.