Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

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.

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

May your birthday be as pleasant and awesome as you always are.

Self enlightenment is the greatest endowment.

I've never been to China. I only know what the West is telling me about China.

I remember all the entertainment shows showing pictures of Nicole Scherzinger annnnd that racing driver she was hanging around with.

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent?

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.