Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

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.

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

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

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

A kid is what you feed it, plus from that what can be gathered.

I don't feel alone with you. I feel like I have a family and a home again. You're my home. All of the dark shadows seem to disappear when we're together.

There are times in our Christian life when we cannot see beyond the next step and we have to trust God.

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.

Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.

I don't send messages, I'm not a fax machine

Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.