Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.

I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.

There is no creativity without vulnerability.

If there's a feeling you have, other people have it. If there's something weird about your life, other people have lived it. If there's something kooky about your body, other people have that, too. We're not alone. There's some kind of tremendous relief in that and I think it can only be expressed in belly laughter. This tremendous relief that happens the millisecond we realize, it's not just me. That's what good laughter is about. It's about knowing that you're not alone.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.