[I'm] very fortunate and blessed person who still has a lot of living to do.

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.

Lack of money is no poverty.

I found I could only glance at him for tiny moments and then I had to look away. He was perfect enough to hurt my feelings for a long time, and I wanted to let him.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.

People say I am lucky. I am lucky indeed because what can be better luck than to have the blessings of 125 crore Indians.

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

If you make just a straight scary movie, people are just - you don't know what they're thinking.

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.