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

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

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

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

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

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

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.