I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.

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.

People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.

My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.

It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.

I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay.

I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.