Martha Stewart

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Shoot for the moon. If you miss you’ll still end up in the stars.

I apologize when I’m wrong.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

There is nothing to search for; everything you seek is already within.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

If you believe, you will. If you don’t, you won’t.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

The genius of the American people is Self-Reliance.