Believe in your passions and act on them.

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

Since the world is ending, ” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings?

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

That's what we do when we work in Silicon Valley tech startups: We think about who's going to benefit from this. That's almost the only thing we think about.

The more suffering you create, the more suffering comes to you.

The receivers are an integral part of the passing game.

During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.

You haven't done the will of God when you have done it miserably.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.

I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?