Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.

She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.

Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.

Never forget who was there for you when no one else was.

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.

Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.