Jude wasn't just my first love. He was my forever love.

Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.

It always amazes me how when we’re sure we’ve lost something for good, it winds up finding us.

Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey.

Freelance isn't for everyone - you've got to be aggressive and enjoy working alone. But you could make more money than you ever imagined.

Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.

I can forgive a man’s past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it’s his religion.

If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most.

The few things I’d sacrificed, or put on hold, to be with my husband and baby were worth it.

I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

Hannah Rose Brown was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. THE PUZZLE RING

in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night

I can't believe that out of 100 000 sperm you were the quickest.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.

I would have all my offensive linemen wrestle if I could.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers

All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.