One of the most important lessons of childhood is discovering what you like to do.

Guard your children's free time - from you.

The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.

The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.

It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical.

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.