The world can be a hard place sometimes... You have to have heart. You have to be strong. Parents want their children to grow up to be strong. Not just any strong, mind you, but loving strong.

But you...are my sweetest gift. The life surprise that soothed all my ills and gave me my greatest joys. I feel so blessed you are mine. —Mama Ya-Ya

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.

He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.

Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.

I was aborted and did not die.

I am the hero of Africa.

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I drift not because it is a quicker way around a corner, but it is the most exciting way.

Wait a while; there will come to you mounts, carrying lions in shining armor, battalions followed by battalions.

One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.