Quotes about Independence

I never hitched my wagon to anyone, so what I achieved over the years was done with only my results on the field.

Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.

It's been a process of evolving within a family company to get the autonomy I now have from a boss like my father. If you're sitting there waiting for a pat on the back, you're going to be waiting a long time.

I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.

I like waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Mmm, I might go to Paris today.' I don't want to ask anyone if they want to come with me or mind me going. I like being my own agent. I have my grandsons and son. If I didn't have them, it would be different.

I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I don't have a sugar daddy, I've never had a sugar daddy.

Running for office, or suggesting you might, is no longer about being a politician but being an independent opinion or sensibility entrepreneur. You're looking for an audience to identify with you. Rather than trying to convince a majority of the electorate, you're looking to cull your particular following.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.