Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.

When in doubt, do the obvious.

A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is perfect.