My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success. I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.

When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

Life is shaped from the inside out.

having too much is never enough.

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

Everything you do, you'll do better with a good night's sleep.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.