"I don't need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves."
- Shirley MacLaine
Self-awareness
"It is useless to try to hold a person to anything he says while he’s madly in love, drunk, or running for office."
- Shirley MacLaine
Relationships
"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it."
- Shirley MacLaine
Relationships
"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."
- Shirley MacLaine
Inspiration
"I don’t need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves."
- Shirley MacLaine
Self-esteem
"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"
- President Boyd K. Packer
Ambition
"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."
- Mark Twain
Ambition
"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."
- David Ogilvy
Ambition
"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."
- Billie Jean King
Ambition
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
- Michael Jordan
Ambition