I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.

What we know matters but who we are matters more.

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

The Glory Is Always Hidden Between The Lines Of the Story

The sacred duty of every soul is to fear God.

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send... and you must live.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier