If we can’t stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can’t move forward.

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.

The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.

I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.