The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.