Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.

Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.

When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.

These days I can't tell what I really feel.

It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints.

The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.

I've never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it's like an animal. She's not eating. She's not sleeping. She's whimpering. She's sluggish. She's not herself

You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.

I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.

They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.

How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?

Leaders do not die with their music on their tongues unsung. They provide services that make them unleash their God-given potentials!

Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.

Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.

And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.

Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.

Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]

The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.

I think I'm more approachable with long hair. When it's short, I come across as being artsy and weird.