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 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.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

Ella!" the voice yells, but I cannot tell where it is coming from. The sound wraps around me, spreading like spilt water and then evaporating into silence.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.

Sometimes when I look back on myself on those earlier records, there was so much effort going in, so much trying. With this, I was trying to make it much more laid back.

Our Lord said. Be yourself with the good Lord.

Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?

There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.

I'm attracted to the underrated characters.