"The best advice I have been given is to live in the moment, as cliché as that sounds. It's crazy."

"I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus."

"To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself."

"Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!"

"Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction."

"The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself"

"Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest"

"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target."

"Try to relax and enjoy the crisis."

"Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good."

"The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit."

"Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return."

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

"It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible."

"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven."

"The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself."

"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."

"The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands"

"Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting."

"When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear."

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."