Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.

What we know matters but who we are matters more.

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world."-Mark Miller

The place where you continually return for love and acceptance—that's home.

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

The first revolution is when you change your mind

Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas have recognized Israel's right to exist. The Israeli government has never recognized our right to a sovereign state and self-determination.

The loftiness of understanding embraces all. It requires as much spirit to suffer the failings of others as it does to appreciate their good qualities.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.