Susan Maushart quotes:

Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with.

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy.

We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.