I think especially as women we nned to recognize that feeling pressure is completely selfimposed.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

She chose messy, she chose wild. She chose life on her own terms.

For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.

A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to.

Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life.

Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get on to something. I always run out with lines as I think of them.