"It is a timeless truth that creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that a grateful heart is a magnet for miracles."

"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."

"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."

"It is a subtle truth that knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience."

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

"My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot."