Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

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 spirit of the way is surely there, in the wish to wander through the world in order to escape it and to find others where there is nobody.

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

No one leads an army to war, unless they have first served in battle

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.

Honestly, I feel really grateful for everything.

I've been around fighters enough to know that you have to be able to give 100 percent of your effort and time into training for a sport.

I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart's been changed.