First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children

Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer.

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

I like to show as much of a woman as I can. I like to fill things out.

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.