Your personal choices matter. And you have the power. Use it.

Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting.

Nobody loves you better because you have used yourself up for them.

Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.

Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

The path to big, systemic change is collective action. That takes Sister Courage.

Today's challenge for women: to value ourselves and demand that others do, too.

The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.

If these restrictions were necessary, the FDA would have promulgated them in the first place, the FDA knows how to evaluate scientific information. Congress knows nothing about that.

We grow our courage muscles like we grow our physical muscles, by using them.

The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.

Oh, what an unbearable yoke is free will! What a vicious curse of the gods, granting self-determination to creatures incapable of guiding themselves! What good parent would free a child among tigers?

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

It's funny because growing up, when Ali G first burst off the screen, it was something that I was probably too young to be watching, but I absolutely loved it.

Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.

Both of you [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] are giants, dare I say nephilim [giants; see Genesis 6:4; Numbers 13:33], in your world.

The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.

We don't live. We're miming in the choir.