See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

I do have a vulnerable side. I think a lot of people have a misperception of me. They only see the tough, defensive, aggressive side. But every woman is vulnerable.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction – especially autobiographies and biographies. I’ve read ‚Long Walk to Freedom‘ by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I’m totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

I never fall in love.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.