Vulnerability is not weakness.

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.

What's that?""That's my attack poodle.

These pages testify to the discovery of uhnlikely gifts when we stay in community--especially when we stay after things get hard.

This is the moment behind which I could forget every other moment that has passed.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.

Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.

Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

If you have a drug problem, you should be sent to a doctor, not a jail cell.