“I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.”

A week is a long time in politics.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

It’s a funny old world.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Being Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd.

Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, somebody of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.

Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.

The facts of life are conservative.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and would achieve nothing.

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?

Keep your goals for yourself. Not everyone deserves access to yourself.

You deserve to live the life you want to live, not the life others expect you to live.

You deserve the love you’re looking for and love will find you.

You deserve to be alive to see the incredible things you will do in life.

Let Go. They don’t deserve you. They never did, and they never will.

Haters don’t deserve one second of your valuable attention, so why would you give them any? 

Someone rejected you doesn’t mean you deserve rejection.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.