Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It's like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really 'arrive,' but we certainly know that we're heading in the right direction.

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 last time he'd walked through a woman's dreams, she'd almost killed him.

Ignorance is bliss. Wisdom is blisters.

I'm just really a lazy homebody.

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

Being a cook doesn't necessarily mean you are a competitor.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.