I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

Differences can be a strength.

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.

I always have the best of everything.

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

Fools rush in, where wise men never go, But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?

Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.

Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.

I told myself over and over again, do it for its images, for the pleasure you get out of it. Do it for your friends If you get more, that's a bonus.

My family, we're all WASPs.