Make no mistake, Madonna is always in control of the image she wants you to see.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

You must have faith in God.

Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

I am more lost in wonder than ever.

Most of the reason we don’t do things is because we’re afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

I don't look at money as success. I look at it as an avenue to freedom.