The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.

I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.

We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.