Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Stop thinking of yourself as a victim. You were a target that is now no longer being hit.

Life changes us, with its twists and turns, in ways we don't always see coming. It changes what we want, what we dream, lays blessings in our hands better than anything we could've imagined.

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet.

Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

It's simple until you make it complicated.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?