To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

That which costs little is less valued.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

Give up trying to make me give up

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.