Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.

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.

Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche is the man who had such a long record of infamy the devil would be blue with envy.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

Hail, hail Freedonia, land of the free!

If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.