Good leaders are always in the “act” of leading. They listen as much to others as they listen to themselves.

Could we imagine that beauty itself doesn’t just exist in society’s version of aesthetic perfection? Beauty also emerges from places and things that tell us stories.

Creative thinking begins by embracing your naiveté and rejecting the obvious in favor of the unusual, the extraordinary, the evocative and or the new.

I wrote Beyond The Label to open up the aperture through which we look at the world. I want us to reconsider what it means to be a woman, a mentor, a wife, a mother.

Allowing yourself to follow the crevices of your heart lines is a messy process and not easy to characterize or rationalize into neat and tidy lists and boxes.

This book is for those of you who are tired of trying to squeeze into constrained categories, who long for a life without limits on who you are or who you will become.

The underlying issue in getting women to top positions is what kind of leadership we value and how we teach, assess, and promote “good” leaders in all organizations.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life they merely get used to it.

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

If I'm going to see my mom, I'm going to church!

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care. But when Newton’s apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell toward the apple as well.

The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.

The calla lilies are in bloom again.

If youre not living awake to the fact the life can change in a dime, then youre living asleep.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.