Gentle

You always have a goddess of wisdom in your corner. It is your education. It is your experience. It is the incredible lessons you have learned right here.

Surround yourself with people who trust and get you, who get your demons and believe in you — not just in what you have to offer them. Keep them close.

Hold your children up high as your greatest inventions because they are. I invented something many of you use every day and it doesn't compare to any day with a happy, healthy child.

Don't be scared if you don't do things in the right order, or if you don't do some things at all. If you have a checklist, good for you. Structured ambition can sometimes be motivating. But also, feel free to let it go.

Take a step that will lead you toward the realization of your dream, and then take another, and another, and another.

It starts with your neighbor, the person right next to you, the person sitting next to you in class, the kid down the block in your neighborhood. You just do whatever you can to help in any way that you can.

My grandmother always used to say, if you've got a dollar, there's plenty to share.

Ubuntu — it means 'I am because of you.' Success in business and in life is best when it's shared.

You will get nowhere without a spiritual practice. Not necessarily religion — maybe it's music, or dancing, or just time for yourself to feed and nurture your own spirit.

To have the opportunity to live a creative life, to have even the possibility of the opportunity to live a creative life, is a gift.

You'll find your way. I did, and have more or less lived to tell the tale, and I sincerely doubt I was half as clever or talented or prepared as you are today.

Keep chasing those moments where you discover something new about your voice. Don't ever let that end.