You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

When a significant other - a spouse, a parent or someone you're close to - is dying, it forces you to think about your life, about what you feel about death. What I realized from my dad's dying was that I wasn't scared of dying. But I was terrified of regrets. I was terrified of getting to the end of my life with a lot of Why didn't I's.

I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.