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.

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.

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.

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

Perfect is the enemy of done.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Death is not the worst sorrow.

I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.

Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.

I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology.

From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!