It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

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.

Repentance seemed like too loose of a word. I knew I’d been wrong, but that didn’t soften the blow.

... it’s a nice day’s work when you make a lot of people smile.

We are responsible. There is nothing being done to us apart from what we are doing to ourselves.

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.

Speak softly, I'm getting my massage.