We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership.

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.

One smile in the morning can change your mood for the entire day. One hug in the evening can usher you into cheerful night dreams you will never regret!

The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon stoking paranoid patriotism!

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

To Barack and Michelle Obama - America owes you an enormous debt of gratitude.

I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.

A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy.

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

The next thing you're going to tell me is Daniel Bryan is the United States Champion.