“You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.”

There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it’s time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America’s children.

I’m as involved as I can be. Whenever I’m asked to do something, I always tend to show up.

I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I’m living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.

I think it’s important to raise your kids, start ’em early. Teaching them the values and morals, so when they get out there on their own, you know they have it. They just have to remember to use it, but they have it.

I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew.

If you try to follow everyone else’s mold, you’ll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.

A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.

I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.

You can’t let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.

There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.

For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It’s like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus.

When I got the red card all the Chelsea players come around. It felt like I had a lot of babies around me.

People expect star kids to be perfect – horse-riding, fighting.

I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.

The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I have so much respect for my opponents; many of them watched the races as little children and were supporting me!

A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.

In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.