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.

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.

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.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze — and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

To have a 9-foot sofa in a small room can be kind of treacherous.

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.