Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.

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.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being

I love you as the moon loves the night.

I will finish what I have began.

Perhaps she was happiest when she was out of control. She looked at the fates and said three little words, not one regret.

There’s a fine line between child-like – learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff – and being child-ish.

The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster.

A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.

What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a complement to the singer and the song.

God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.