Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

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.

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

I come from a family of working professionals: my dad is a chartered accountant, and my mom is a professor.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.

Well Connor thought ruefully At least now I know who to thank for my anger issues.

All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking

Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?