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.

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

I had heard that when people lost people, there was anger. But I definitely experienced it a lot more than I was prepared for it. Anger was not something I'd ever really felt in my life and I was not prepared for it.

Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.

The most important thing - and I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred times - if you marry a man, marry the right one.

Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.

When the man is traveling with a man, he says, "Let's stay up late and work on this and get this to be better." When the man's traveling with the woman, for the sake of appearances he doesn't do the work with her. That's a lost opportunity for her to be a success.