Power unused is power useless.

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.

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

If UEFA will not embrace video technology, then we need two more officials behind the goals to help the referee.

I was a geek in high school.

Things don't happen to you, they happen for you.

Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

You may be whatever you resolve to be - determine to be something in the world and you will be something. " I cannot," never accomplished anything. "I will try" has worked wonders.

I'm fascinated by politics. I love watching everyone from Neil deGrasse Tyson to Lawrence Krauss to people like Richard Dawkins and Noam Chomsky on YouTube.

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.