Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

Ideally you want to be a couple of months ahead on a project. But I rarely am.

Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.

Everyone is ready to win, few are prepared.

Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

Faith alone is the sun of life.

When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.

But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you.