The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.

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.

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

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.

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems.

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.