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.

One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

A lot of women make choices based on how they saw their mother's choices working out, how they saw the choices of the women elders in their lives working out. There's some rebellion in that, but there's also some deep reflection.

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.