I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do.

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.

I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can--until I die.

Life moves very fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

There is always a TRUTH to be revealed in any situation where your emotions have shifted.

The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.

Wise men hear and see as little children do.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.

I make films about working class people.