As a professor, millennials intrigued me. I see them as engagement ready - plug-n-play if you will. They want to contribute in the classroom, the workplace and to society.

We must treat others as if they matter, as if they are worthy of care and attention.

We should always be learning or we will cease to be able to change or adapt. I think the best work on leadership today is by Ronald Heifetz. His work is focused on adaptive leadership.

The people who care about us the most are the ones who are most likely to hold us back.

People who lack self-regulation are often invasive of others. They can be perceived as being controlling, antagonistic, or even subversive.

Sometimes we don't move forward because the people who love us the most unconsciously sabotage our efforts.

Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability. Dignity is a feeling of inherent value and worth.

Friedman suggests self-differentiation is about knowing where you end and others begin.

Leadership transitions require us to move out of our comfort zone.

Authenticity is not an innate quality - that is, you are not born with it. Being an authentic leader is not something you can say about yourself; it must be attributed to you.

We do fall away from faith. God’s grace gives us strength to rise again.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants

We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.

You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own.

If you want an honest dialogue, you can't criticize someone for what they say. You can't teach someone to think in a certain way.

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.

I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women.