A finished person is a boring person.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.