They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

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.

Even though we know we have to let you go, our hearts are singing the song no- no- no. We can’t let you go.

Thousands of reason are too less to make me sad but a single reason is enough to make me smile.

Pride could be painful sometimes. And right now, hers was suffocating

Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.

I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.

Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.