Most of us think we've had more trouble than we deserve.

Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.

Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.

We never wholly shed anything that we have ever been.

The love I knew was from books..

On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.

The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

Laughing at ones own attempt at humor while saying things just come to me should be punishable by death.

Sometimes I overtinker, which is something wrong with my brain chemistry. But in figuring out why I do that, maybe I'll make myself a better person. I doubt it.

For how long could we fail until we surrendered?

Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

Before you do anything, whatever it is, figure out who you are first.

The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.