Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It is a teacher, a clarifier, and your friend, especially if you are trying to make change.

Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting.

Nobody loves you better because you have used yourself up for them.

Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.

Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

The path to big, systemic change is collective action. That takes Sister Courage.

Today's challenge for women: to value ourselves and demand that others do, too.

The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.

If these restrictions were necessary, the FDA would have promulgated them in the first place, the FDA knows how to evaluate scientific information. Congress knows nothing about that.

We grow our courage muscles like we grow our physical muscles, by using them.

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, come forth from deep within me with Christmas luminous beauty.

Communication always has a purpose. Before speaking, the first law is: you must know why you are talking. You must know what you are communicating for. What do you want?

Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.

You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

I was a real rebel. I got expelled.

In fact, the males very rarely take permanent mates.' His skin was so tan. 'Why not?' 'Because we tend to kill the females.' Ah, well, okay. That wasn't cool.

I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.