Women play a couple of roles. They are in professional schools and increasingly producing the talent to keep the engines of the economy growing, but they're also the nurturers and the caregivers.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you.

Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.

Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.

If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself.

Take a stand. Be known for your courage and confidence.

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.

At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person.

The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret.

I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

It’s still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.

I suppose love is never a sure thing, no matter what words are spoken. Love requires a leap of faith into the abyss, every time.

I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.

It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.