Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

Women have to work exceptionally hard.

We must help women in every society to have their voices heard.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere.

What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.