Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.

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.

I have never felt so alive—so free—so proud. I love my country. I love my America.

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.

That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.

Breathe. It's only a bad day not a bad life.

Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost.

The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

I've been treated as less than human, as a thing, as a pawn. And just because I don't have a Bible or a microphone-just because I don't draw millions of people on TV-doesn't mean I'm not human.

It's very rewarding if I make a difference to a kid.