When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.

We cannot give our children what we don’t have.

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.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.

How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?

Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.