When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

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.

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

Integrity is something we show, not proclaim.

In a way, the books were protection. An escape she would always have access to.A sanctuary, there for when she needed it.

Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man - himself so true, That no false does he brew.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

To be too busie gets contempt.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.

I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.