By softening our attitudes, practicing mercy and compassion, we transform our lives by transforming other people's experience of us. Send love before you when you enter a room, and people will subconsciously feel it; they'll be prone to show greater kindness in return. That's how love makes things work better in our lives; it realigns the reactions of people and things around us.

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.

The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.