Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

Love makes us such fools.

She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.

The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.

Because I'm your mother, that's why.

Some of the most radiant Christians I have ever met were “wheelchair” saints. May God give you grace to “triumph in affliction.

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

The older you get the more you try to appreciate what you've accomplished.

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.