Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.

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.

Have an attitude of positive expectation.

Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions

Don't be a one hit wonder. Daringly disrupt the marketplace again and again.

How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.

Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue.