"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."

"I'm a natural worrier."

"I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."

"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly."

"When we're afraid, we cling to what we know."