Quotes from Madonna

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too.

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.

Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free.

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

Power without guilt, love without doubt....

It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.

Don't just stand there let's get to it. Strike a pose, there's nothing to it.

I always thought I should be treated like a star.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true.

Only love can last.

If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

Beauty is where you find it.

If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay

We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?