“We often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.”

It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

We’re ignorant of our past.

And to teach you something about what we know.

The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.

Recently did an on-line test called ‘What’s Your True Age?’ My result was 50-60 years old.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement.

And when school doesn’t offer the same, it’s easy to tune out.

It is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.

If I had my way, I’d end all wars and poverty.

If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love.

The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.

The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors’ pushup bras?

I wouldn’t call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers.

The next step is figuring out how you’re going to do it.

But where’s the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.

The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.

I feel like I’m a veteran at this now.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can’t see that from the outside.

Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.

Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.