If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.

Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women.

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.

It has thick skin, and all the most important thinkers have become part of it.

I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it's a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.

A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.

It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

Renew your intention EVERY day, EVERY time you pray, and EVERY time you are about to do a good deed or else shaytan will lead your heart and mind astray.

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

I've destroyed my feet completely but I don't care. What do you really need your feet for anyway.