I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

I can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

In the real world, children love me.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

One man with courage is a majority.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

My next baby will be my new record.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

I’ve never been a feminist.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‚A-hem!‘ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.