Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability.

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 did not know then that words and music are more deadly than any spear.

How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?

When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do - it's part of who we are.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

[On Ronald Reagan:] The President doesn't want yes-men around. When he says no, we all say no.

The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.

This is the funny thing about Skype. No one is really looking into the camera. People always looking down because they're looking at the image. You wish the camera was there in the center.

It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.

Making "bad people" seem human is the key to making them really scary.

Finally, in 1954 [Ho Chi Minh] agreed to the Geneva Agreement, which divided the country temporarily into two zones, in the hope that national elections might unify the country under his leadership.