Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!

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.

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

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.

Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

We’re not crazy. We’re just not in the dark anymore. And my goodness, we can see you so clearly now.

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.

E-books are impervious to analogy.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.