I'm much more creative when I've actually taken care of myself.

I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'

I've always said that I think one of the best and cheapest ways to become healthier and happier is through mindfulness exercises like meditation.

We all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and balance.

Clearly drive, IQ, and hard work are incredibly important. But ultimately what matters most is resilience--the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success.

The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .