People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.

There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.

A lot of support gets withheld out of fear of awkwardness and misspeaking.

I'm not a big fan of the white lie.

You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience.

We all make deals with ourselves when it comes to the difficult people in our lives.

First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.