Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.

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.

Patriotism has no appeal to us justice has. Party has no weight with us principle has. Loyalty is meaningless it depends on what one is loyal to.

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.

I've always been a teaser, even as a kid.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.