When you numb your pain you also numb your joy.

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.

Some say only the most trustworthy & loving go through trials we don't understand. I say that it's only them who didn't let it change who they were.

Not seeing is half-believing.

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

The only thing permanent is change.

Nothing is yours permanently so you better enjoy it while it's happening.

I think a smart woman can sell the average man anything.

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.

Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.