Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.

You have to speak your dream out loud.

And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much.

Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely pause to scratch your ankle.

How seriously can I take myself? I'm just one of six billion people, right?

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.

We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.

He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime.

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.

I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.

You are condemn your by thoughts.

Love is the most beautiful flower in the garden of life.

When you heart knows it doesn't belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart develop the happiness habit and life will become a continual feast.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.

While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.

My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it.