We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers.

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

Done is better than perfect.

Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor.

Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

Women need to shift from thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

If we push hard now, this next wave can be the last wave. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders

A life without having loved someone is a life never lived.

Are you planning to kiss me?' Aedan asked.'No.' Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose.'Then why are you standing so close?' Aedan's tone was perfect innocence.

A man that hath friends must show himself friendly and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money.

You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.