You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Rhetoric abounds in the cemeteries of reason.

And one of the elders of the city, said, speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good .

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon find its meaning.

There's nothing better than working up a good sweat.

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.

In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.