A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.

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.

Qualities too elevated often unfit a man for society. We don't bring ingots with us to market

The primary goal isn't a financial gain; it's to put out interesting music.

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

I got my SAG card when I was 10 by starring in a Beenie Weenie's commercial.

Economics is not an exact science.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.