Courage

Believing you can do something is the first step to doing it. Don't let anyone put limits on you. Don't put limits on yourself.

Remember that hope is not a strategy. And problems don't go away when you ignore them — they get bigger.

She was not a white man. So Clara rewrote the law that governed the practice of law in California, replacing 'white man' with 'any citizen or person resident of this state.'

Stop worrying so much. Stop being scared of the unknown. Anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened, but not what I worried about.

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

Be uncomfortable. Open doors. Empathize with strangers. Try new things out. Seek serendipity. Take chances with new friends. And pay it forward to people you don't know.

On the air I am capable of asking anybody anything. But take away the mic and I can become uncomfortable, self-conscious, and insecure.

We don't always see the hard truths, and once we see them, we don't always have the courage to speak out. The world was not equal then, and it is not equal now.

The first time I spoke out about what it was like to be a woman in the workforce was less than five years ago. That means that for eighteen years, from where you sit to where I stand, my silence implied that everything was OK. You can do better than I did.

It's one of the best qualities to have, the ability to reset after you've taken a hard hit. I've had the pleasure and privilege of seeing the human spirit in full flight in incredible ways.