I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive.

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.

Success has nothing to do with happiness.

Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the extreme where violence against women is legal and supported and in other cultures it is more subversive and easy to dismiss as "progress."

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.