The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

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.

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

New things are always better than old things.

Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.

Mental Management is the process of maximising the probability of having a consistent mental performance, under pressure, on demand

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

Creativity suffers under great scrutiny from ourselves or others.

For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.