“I define empathy as the ability to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes and to understand and connect with what they are feeling - to feel what they’re feeling. You first have to understand the world as they see it through their eyes.”

Good listeners listen to what people say, and great listeners notice what people don’t say. When you know the neuroscience of listening, you realize that people can think up to nine times faster than they can speak. So the first thing they say is probably between ten and fourteen percent of what they are thinking.

“The reality is, we are all interconnected and there’s a broader perspective that a lot of people don’t have on how my actions and the actions of our community then affect the actions of our state, which affect the actions of our country.”

"Leadership requires you to weigh-in and weigh-over the consequences of the decision either way and how that decision affects individuals."

“The emotionally healthy person lives in the now. So, we don’t have to wait until some other time. We don’t have to wait until we’re retired. We don’t have to wait until something else happens. We don’t have to live a life of contingency.”

"Where purpose really takes hold is when it's part of a real belief system, a system of values, a real point of view, a world view where there's a real vision for how the world should be."

“The status quo is always going to be the result of entropy and inertia, unless somebody takes action to do something remarkably different.”

“When you want to help people change, you’ve got to uncover their motivations, their drivers, then uncover the situation/impact, and figure out if it’s big enough, strong enough that they’re willing to change who they are to change the outcome.”

“If there is a purpose to this life, I would say it’s to evolve ourselves....”

“The future pulls us out of the past, and pulls toward the dream, and what’s possible.”

"If you are not willing and able to lead wholeheartedly, get the hell out of the way so that somebody who is can."

“I would encourage people to think about this concept of playgrounds and how they can get up every day and turn a practice into a habit into a system that allows them to have fun in their lives.”