Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see - they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur.