We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

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.

The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:It longed for the adventure of Ignorance

You do what you love, what you need.

The best advice you can give anyone consists of one word only, given at precisely the right moment.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it's something really spectacular, don't tweet me your breakfast, I don't care.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

When a critical mass of people have the Bible and apply what it teaches in their lives, a nation is transformed.

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

No one keeps the container, they always keep the product.