When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

Parents are, of course, most important in shaping their children's lives, but teachers are critically important as well. Who among us doesn't look back on a few great teachers who inspired us, opened up new worlds, and helped make us who we are?

I've got a lovely family now, I've got two boys.

The beauty of America is that I don't have to deny my past to affirm my present. No one does. We can love this nation like a parent and still embrace our ancestral home like cherished grandparents.

After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.