New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.

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.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.