If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

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.

I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

It's time for us all to step up. We've been extremely successful, but to be honest it's a reality check for everybody.

Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts.

I like television that grabs you by your throat.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

Whatever you really want, wants don't get met consistently, standards do.

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.