In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore and they're not just mothers.

Because I have work to care about it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

For any of us in this room today let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in our grandmothers lived in where career choices for women were so limited.

We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans all humans... starting with the president Mohammed Morsi and all officials and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.

Your art kind of changes as you get older by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

Economists often like startling theorems results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

Start wide expand further and never look back.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.