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.

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.

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

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

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.

Think about the things in life that elicit passion in you and make you happy.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.

Life's too short not to sleep when you feel like it.

A game that a lot of critics like is not necessarily a game that enough players like to be able to make back an investment of tens of millions of dollars.

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.