Happiness is a mystery in the minds of many because they keep expecting to attain it from experiences that create pleasures.

What was reckless, I decided, was the way people were writing off huge swaths of the world as unsafe, unstable, unfriendly, when all they needed to do was go and see for themselves

Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose.

You must change in order to survive.

There is no excuse for not trying.

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

No matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.