When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth.

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.