"What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny."

“I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.”

“Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive”

“Discord gives a relish for concord.”

“A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.”

“It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.”

“Focusing on negative situations is never helpful.”

Source : "Interview with Actress Jacqui Holland on Beauty, Aging, and Embracing Pain". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.”

Source : Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

“I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.”