There must be some atom of our life hidden here, lingering in this quiet somewhere.

My boys. I don't have them to hold. What do I do with my arms?

I was terrified that tomorrow the truth would start.

I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.

Their promise, my children's possibilities, still linger in our home.

I would plead into the darkness, where are they, bring them back

You can’t get where you want to go unless you start with where you are.

I don't run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.

One's first book kiss home run is always the best.

Saving time = wasting time.

If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.

Remember yourself always and everywhere.

Leadership, like responsibility, is a voluntary act.

Usually the male control and domination that tends to be in our genes gets around a powerful woman who has the ability to make choices different from guys, it throws you off and you get frustrated.

Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.

For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.