Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.

No mother should lose her child.

The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him. But even that didn't feel like anything anymore.

Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

Don't waste your one beautiful life.

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

I was born 10 years old.

Success is never on discount! Greatness is never on sale! Greatness is never half off! It's all or nothing! It's all day, every day! Greatness is never on discount!

You gotta live life. You gotta enjoy life. I mean, I don't live on the edge.

I think very early on in life we all learn what we're good at and what we're not good at, and we stay where it's safe.

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.