It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

Don’t be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams!

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world.

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.

I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

Power is not given to you. You have to take it.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

You have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman.

The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

Power to me is the ability to make a change in a positive way.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

No matter what you look like or think you look like you’re special and loved and perfect just the way you are.

And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk more.

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Yes, I’m a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted, and tough.

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.

Not knowing you can’t do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Don’t be the girl who fell. Be the girl who got back up.

Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

It's okay to take the food out of the mouths of the citizens from a government that's plotting an attack directly on American soil.

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

When your wife calls, you have to take it, no matter what you're doing.

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness.

I always wanted to have a headphone line but I feel like Im going to do more than just headphones eventually but we want to wake the world up right now with this.

Even those who don't believe in climate change believe we should develop renewable energy. Americans get it: it's time. This is not controversial. It's actually right in the wheelhouse of American business.

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.