Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today’s world, that’s pretty extraordinary.

Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.

Compassionate people are boundaried people.

Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.

You’ll also wonder how you can feel so brave and so afraid at the same time.

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.

Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are.

Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.

I go inside my head and become that other me, the one I don't tell anybody about. The observer... I live in terror that one day I won't get to be Dani again.

I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.

You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street.

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.