Stories, Articles and Quotes by Madonna

"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 prefer going through fire rather than bypassing it."

"We are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give."

"If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then don't even enter the ring."

"I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive."

"Power without guilt, love without doubt."

"I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think."

"A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don't know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to sometime, you're fearing something it's bringing up in you."

"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."

"No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always become a better version of yourself."