In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.

I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.

The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.