Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

He always believed that people live up or down to the amount of trust you put in them.

Don't take things for granted.

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator.

Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians are not wizards, they should not try.

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

For most men, a stepford wife would bore them to tears after a couple of weeks

You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.