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.

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.

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.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.

If I stay. If I live. It's up to me.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

My way of thinking is better than yours.

I don't know how people can live without a therapist.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.

Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.