I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.

We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

The credit belongs to those of us who are actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. We strive valiantly and sometimes there's the triumph of achievement but at the worst, we fail, but at least we fail while daring greatly." That has really changed my life. Profoundly changed my life.

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.