What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

The only person between you and you success is you.

As you think and act, so your world becomes.

If He isn't Lord of all, He isn't Lord at all.

Real estate is still a great investment opportunity for households. Price appreciation will continue. It may not be at 20%. It may ... even go down to 5%.

Domenech is the worst coach France have had since Louis XVI.

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.

If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad.

Can't nobody make you make any music that you don't wanna make. Remember that.