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

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.

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.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.

You are not too small. No one is ever too small to offer help.

The first step toward being loved is learning to love what you see when you look in the mirror.

It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them

The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500.

In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.