Tools of empowerment - heartset and mindset.

perfection is a form of fear

Something inside of me won't let me play small

Get started, there is nothing left to discuss. Do it. Now!

Why are you here? To shine... just shine

Blaming has no positive effect at all

You can't find "it" out there

waging war against inane language that circulates almost automatically is a writer's eternal mission, and the day will never come when this battles are unnecessary.

Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.

Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.

We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.

There is nothing more powerful and beautiful than motherhood.

I'm always going to keep your heart safe, even if mine has to stop beating for that to happen.

Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are.

As the Chinese will tell you, history depends on your point of view.

When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.