"I bet you’re really good with your hands, all that drawing and building."

“Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.”

“I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.”

“Power is the ability to make change.”

“Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.”

Source : "What's the ROI on Your Day? Amy Jo Martin on Passion and Innovation". Interview with Leslie Bradshaw, www.forbes.com. January 26, 2012.

“I definitely have my days where I look like I got dressed in the dark.”

“How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.”

“Maybe lifting someone else’s weight makes yours a little more bearable”

“I always tell people there's nothing greater than a crisis to create a breakthrough. Because that's when we breakthrough usually - most people don't proactively breakthrough - they breakthrough because they have to. And the beauty of crisis is it doesn't feel beautiful, is it melts us down. And when you're melted down you can recast your life in a new way.”