Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.
If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure. . . it's always going to be a mistake.
A loss leads to victory, being fired leads to a dream job. . I find comfort in believing that good things can grow out of tragedy.
There have always been people who have written me off. They're not going away. I use that to motivate me. I'm driven to show them just how wrong they are.
I get asked that a lot and I always go back to my mom's, 'No one has the right to beat you. ' I take that to every venue that I'm in. She would say, 'Someone has to be the best in the world, why not you?' I always try to keep that in mind.
I'm the most dangerous unarmed women in the world, I've prepared my entire life to be that way.
Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.
Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.
I teach at Georgetown, and I see that the students have so many different interests. The main thing is to match your passion with your knowledge, because you can't just be passionate without knowing the facts, and facts are really boring without passion.
He who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter its perils, from love of country and of home--who is willing to sacrifice himself and all that is dear to him in life, to promote the well-being of his fellow-man, will ever receive a worthy homage.