I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

Im about as straight an arrow as youll find out there.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me.

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.

A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life.

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

People who feel positively think differently. They think better.

If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.