No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential.

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.

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.

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.

There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.

Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

If your friends never make you uncomfortable. You don't have friends. You have fans.

The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.

There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.

The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation.