I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

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.

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.

Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.

The IRS wants you to use this form because it gets to keep most of your money. So unless you have pond silt for brains, you want the long form.

Time And well being are two valuable belongings that we do not acknowledge and respect till they've been depleted.

The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.

We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.

I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark.

Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.

Don’t play that game with me, Acheron. Tell me what I need to know! (Xypher) Nice tone. We should rent you out to record Halloween albums. (Acheron)

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.