True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale.

We are stronger than we think we are. We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it. We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

There are so many people in the communities in need and so many organizations in need. People are doing amazing, beautiful things just to keep the world from not hurting more today than yesterday.

It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.

I do think men fear female intuition.

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

God will only reveal Himself to you when you begin to regard His people

If you do not work for your dream or purpose, someone else will hire you to fulfill his/hers

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.

It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.

Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up.

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)

Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her

The comfort of our peer-connections is reflected in our most honest and direct hand-holding. When we trip, they are the first ones to pull us back up.