You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

Differences can be a strength.

[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.

A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

We find we breathe again, and hear the surgeon hum. Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly Thunders.

Who cares and who doesn't care about a project, is going to shape the project in a significant way.

I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.

I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.

Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.

Though I be but prince of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy.