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

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.

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.

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.

Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action.

Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.

We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!

I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Even the poor should give something to charity.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.