The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

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.

Writing is a pleasure but family is a blessing!

Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray.

Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts you make on earth should be something worthy to improve lives.

Ambition and poverty are powerful motivators...

Music should strike fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.