Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it.

Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

Your life's course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges.

Life is Temporary, and in life everything is temporary

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

I have a blessed life in so many ways.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.