Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.

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.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.