My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

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.

Happiness is the condition of who we are and how we think and what we believe and how we live.

Isn't it wonderful when people do that, when you put all your faith in their being selfish and self -centered and not giving a damn and it turns out, all that time, you were wrong?

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

There's a huge pressure as a judge. It was difficult. I certainly didn't enjoy that factor, because it's a big responsibility to have a million dollars in your hand to change somebody's life.

I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that we can somehow get past the destruction that we have brought and that we are causing today.

Let's put Christ back into Christmas.

My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.

An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.

So," Annabeth said, "are you going to argue about me coming along?" "Nah. You'd just beat me up." Percy said. She managed a laugh, which was good to hear

Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.