When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to 'The Today Show,' and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

We are extremely uncomfortable with the spiritual aspects of gardening, and yet most people feel it in some form or other, even if it's a sense of connection to the greater world on a beautiful day.