I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

Every time you take a step and walk with your fear, you'll never know the impact. But you can be certain somebody's watching, and that courage is contagious.

A teacher told me this story some time ago: She asked her students to line up in order of how much power they thought they had relative to the others in the class, and they all fought to be last in line. They didn't want to acknowledge that they had personal power.

We can choose who we bring into our lives. We can choose who will reinforce our risk taking.

Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

When we say we have "hit the limits," we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.