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.

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.

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

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.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.

I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

You must look like a money person for clients to trust you.

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.