People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

When you lift up others, you rise up together.

...see the blessing and beauty that you are.

Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

I often help others discover the outer limits of their hatred. It’s a talent of mine.

If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.

I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids.

Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.