I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer.

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.

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

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.

The energy that is necessary for us to achieve the goal is spent on meaningless anxiety

Faith gives us strength.Grace gives us power.Hope gives us anchor.

I look at life as an adventure. Each new chapter brings new opportunities.

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.

I'd like to be somewhere near Lawrence Taylor so I can keep an eye on that sucker.

When all other hope is gone, our Father in Heaven provides the Lamb of God, and we are saved by his sacrifice.

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

I've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.