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.

What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I'm a little weird that way. I don't really know how to express my happiness.

The biggest lesson my kids have taught me is to find the joy in little things, along with a healthy dose of patience.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.