In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

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.

I suppose that one of my greatest problem lays in the fact that I have assumed a blessing to be something that is mine for the taking, verses being something that by sheer exposure to it takes me.

I knew you didn't love me, but I dangerously adored you anyways.

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.

No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

Because God is sovereign, He is able to answer. Because He is faithful to His promises, He will answer.

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

Ah...so many pedestrians, so little time...