Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.

Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.

Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.

I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.

I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much.