Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

The prime purposes of our lives is to help others, love others, and be kind to others.

Never underestimate the power of thought.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

There is nothing more boring than people who love you.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.

Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

When your garden is finished I hope it will be more beautiful that you anticipated, require less care than you expected, and have cost only a little more than you had planned.