Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

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.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

We only fear due to lack of faith.

Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing. When we have made it the next wish is to change again.

I go to dance clubs...about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise.

As an actor, you can't judge. A great actress from Spain said, "We, the actors, are lawyers of the characters we play. We have to defend them, no matter what."

I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.