Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.

I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

Tombstones don´t list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter.

I had nothing to fear from my father.Except his disappointment.Which was no small thing.

So, is it harder to dream about what you don´t have than to live in fear of losing what you do?

Observing is the basis of wisdom.

The searchlight of [God’s] Spirit will probe the inner depths of your soul and reveal things that you think you have already yielded, but you have not.

Where would I find enough leatherTo cover the entire surface of the earth?But with leather soles beneath my feet, It’s as if the whole world has been covered.

Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.

Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.

You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions.

I don't really exude that 'it' factor.

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.