Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

My goal is always, how do you get better?

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.