Never think that someone else knows what's best for you. Trust your way and don't ask for so much advice. Learn how to be quiet and still enough to hear your own voice. It's up to you: Your voice will either be silenced or will get to roar.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

I stand on the shoulders of women who marched before me.

I don't think you have to go out and become Secretary of State or be Bono but I think it's to let people know that whatever they do in their life that that's good.

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.

Investing in women, helping women to achieve their dreams, sending young girls to college. Trying to train young girls to be leaders. Sponsoring the Minerva Awards. All of these programs didn't exist before that help women day in and day out.

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?