Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.

Knowledge is only rumor until it lives in the bones.

Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.