Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!

I now believe that bêtes noires usually attack because we're thwarting our own destinies. Calming the beast turns us toward our best lives.

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you’re okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you may be in grief. But you’re here, you’re surviving; this moment is okay.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.