Robert Mondavi Quotes

Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

The big things I've had are things I bought myself.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?

I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.

The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them.

My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.

To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off.

An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.

When you do it yourself, you feel better.

It's important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be my shadow. Let them make their own decisions, and support them along the way.

I wanted my kids to be able to look at their mom and be like, 'She can take care of herself.'

Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids.

My journey is self-made because I came from nothing. It's the best feeling now, because I don't really feel like I owe anybody.

I want to feel like I can take care of myself.

When I was younger, the idea of the bad boy was appealing, but then I grew up and realized that stable people are more fulfilling. Bad boys need more time to themselves. I want to be in a relationship with someone who knows how to take care of himself and is therefore able to take care of me. That way, we can put each other first.

In this life, you have to be your own hero.