It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all.

...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).

True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you.

No dates until you're sixteen. And no boyfriends, either.' I'm not quite sure how to tell Mom, but it looks like I don't just have one boyfriend. I have two.

Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.

I love the idea that it doesn't take one person only to achieve your potential. It takes a village, it takes a community, a street, a teacher, a mother.

What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.

If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

Changing the game is a mindset.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

Women are not attracted to men who are good looking - they are attracted to men who are attractive.