Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.

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.

Don’t work too hard. Try to maintain balance. Don’t make work your whole life.

Open your eyes

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

When I was 66, my wife June died of cancer. Two years later--a year and a half ago--I married Kristen McMain, the eternal companion who now stands at my side.

You have to know, when there is a fire in the kitchen, when to flood that fire.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

A real turnoff for guys is any girl who is way too into them. Like, you're being way too nice. Guys, as well as girls, like that sense of badness. I want a good girl, who can be a little bad.

Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.