I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

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.

When giving money to the amputated, you must put it directly into their pockets.

The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them … on twitter.

The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus.

I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart.

I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

I'm still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year... I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.

It takes a minute to say hello Why? I wonder why When it's seems to take forever When you have to say Goodbye?

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal.

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.