Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.

Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

Do you really think it's behaving like a Christian to be glad when you see death and ruin falling on your fellow men? Is that what Christ taught us?

Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

He's not a lad that likes to stand on his feet.

I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

Azhar Usman is a true original and will laugh the hate right out of you.

It's amazing how beauty can mask so many flaws

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand.