There is no joy without gratitude.

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.

All those we can love, think, or imagine are more real than those we can see or have seen.

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.

A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me.

Staring at the blue sky causes insomnia to occur in the human.

It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem

... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.

Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.

I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American in every community has the right to pursue happiness.

George W. Bush has exhibited hostility to science that no other president has ever displayed.

Knowing that you are nothing is Wisdom, Knowing that you are everything is Love.