There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult.

But we should open our eyes to the many ways in which hypervigilance keeps them penned in from the more liberated life they deserve to live and that in turn would prepare them for adulthood.

Resilience is built from real hardship and cannot be bought or manufactured.

We’re depriving our kids of the chance to do the work of life for themselves.

Young adults come to resent the people who did the thinking for them.

A sense of purpose is essential for achieving happiness and satisfaction in life.

Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do but you suck it up and do it anyway, and that's what teaches you humility, work ethic, responsibility, and follow-through.

Happiness and self-confidence can be the by-products of other things, but they cannot really be goals unto themselves.

We're [as parents] striving for an unattainable, inauthentic shell, and ignoring the real nut, the gooey inside: love, laughter, and fulfillment from simple things.

If you terminate a person from your life who is very toxic towards your reputation, you can actually lead yourself pertaining a career that you desire without any interference.

It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight, that may have been a poor choice of phrasing.

The body is a clothing that suits us for life. (Le corps est un habit - Qui nous va à vie.)

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.

A dream has power to poison sleep.

The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.

Progressive rock was happening.

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.