Don't strive for perfection. There are so many changes you can make, there are so many tips you can choose to incorporate--start with ones that aren't going to diminish joy.

We all have scars & deep pain. It'swhat makes us human & vulnerable.

A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.

That night, Hallie was relieved when Linda Soares, the town librarian who'd spent years trying to impress Nick with her low-cut shirts and book recommendations, joined them for dinner.

I’m not bilingual, but I am fluent in therapists’ jargon.

Nobody can survive alone, in this world. People have bonds, and sometimes those bonds are broken. And then, that person goes spinning off and connects with someone else.

Always be kinder than necessary.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested.

Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.

What man is, only his history tells.