I'm telling you that you don't have to choose between smart and sexy. You can have both. You are both.

I believe that there is a silver lining in everything, and once you begin to see it, you'll need sunglasses to combat the glare.

I’ve been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want – and the one that I’m best at.

I stopped feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I actually belonged anywhere I wanted to be.

We choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen ... or not.

I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.

The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

Compete with yourself, not with others.

True success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths

A #GIRLBOSS is in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it.

Me comes before we. You need to become future strong before you can help others do the same.

And grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away, and the person so real, so beloved, becomes a dim, slightly out-of-focus shadow.

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

I think a lot of people can get wrapped up in comparing themselves. And that's when the tragic downfall comes, because there will always be someone more beautiful.

There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.

Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that.

I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old.

All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.