The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

Being present here and now is the highest compliment you can pay to a woman in your life.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Governance allows organizations to...achieve unprecedented automation.

The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society.

Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better.