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

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.

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.

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

Do more listening than talking

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

People are living books. The real library of life is community.

Teach children the value of work and to work hard at everything they do. The virtue of compassion and value of appreciation of the hard work of others too.

Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.

I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.

You know who Boehner is, right? He's that orange looking guy. See, for Republicans that counts as diversity.

Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?