If you can tell a story well, you can move people to do something.

There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed.

Step out of the space you're in. Use fear to grow. We can change lives, starting with our own.

Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.

Always zig when people expect you to zag. Confound them!

My advice to young women who are looking to be successful; make sure you're passionate about whatever it is that you're doing. And make sure you're fulfilled by the opportunities within your job.

One thing that's certain: around the corner from every ugly thing, there's something really beautiful. If we stop at every bitter interaction; we'll never reach our destination.

One thing we can do really well for our students is to help them figure out their identity.

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about what's "too much" what's "enough" or if you're telling the "right" stories, just do good work.

the voice of beauty speaks softly

Hope is the light at the end of the tunnel guiding the way.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear..." ?!?!

Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.

So when people ask me if there's another one, I say, "You know, I don't think so, but I don't know, and I kind of don't understand why."