“People need each other. Our well-being is tightly tethered to the well-being of people we do not know, most of whom look nothing like ourselves. Happiness, I realized right there in breathing class, requires engagement.”

“Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.”

“My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'”

“I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.”

“I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.”

“I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.”

“I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.”

“I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.”

“I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.”

“I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.”

“The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.”