I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

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.

The most powerful way to maintain a steady supply of inspiration and unconditional peace is to find and pursue your calling.

No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.

I do my talking inside the Octagon.

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Cowardice is the greatest sin.

[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.