I'm trying to strip myself down to my barest essentials so I can figure out where I begin and where the woman the world told me to be begins. I'm going back to the starting line.

Since the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I've been trying to become who I am supposed to be.

She is trying to be brave, but no one knows what brave looks like inside this particular moment.

Teach children the value of work and to work hard at everything they do. The virtue of compassion and value of appreciation of the hard work of others too.

[O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Why do we always fight?” she whispered. “You know why.” Yeah, she did. “It’s science.” “Combustible chemistry,” he agreed. “Dangerous.

In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

I don't care what you say, so don't even speak.

The world has changed, but education has not changed with it.