Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

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.

When you speak from your heart, the words ring true, but as you speak in anger, I'll only shed tears for you.

It is only when you run away from what society wants you to do with your time and then invest that time into doing what you were born to do that you can attain greatness and live a fulfilled life.

The same faint song is heard in everything: "Behold yourself".

It’s like saying you’re fixed in the past, and you’re running out of time. Every moment is only the beginning of something new

Any day above ground is a good day.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security.

I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.