When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.