Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with.

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy.

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.

You make it sound so simple.” “It is, for the most part. Love is complicated, it can be downright ugly, but with the two of you it can be nothing but beautiful in the end.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth.

When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.

I grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.

Here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don't we have the technology to make me sing better?

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful - not a nasty place, but a place filled with love, joy, compassion and all virtues

Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.