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.

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.

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.

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.

You’re supposed to pinch yourself – not the one you’re dreaming about.

Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.

The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.

Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?

You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there.

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.