invalidation is crazy-making, and it is also at the root of gaslighting, where victims' feelings are purposely denied or manipulated in order to make them question their sanity.

He remounted. “I will ride with you.” With some effort, he gentled his voice. “If that would be agreeable to you.” “How kind of you. Thank you.

The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's impossible to make any kind of a turn. It was kind of a one-handed chili-dip.

I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.

Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.

Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.

I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.