My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

Choose people who lift you up.

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.

Investing in girls' education is the very best thing we can do, not just for our daughters and granddaughters, but for their families, their communities, and their countries.

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.