When we write with power and authenticity, it opens the door to our hearts and invites others in. When we're brave, we make others brave. Brave is good.

A good story invites us into someone else's world where we learn, discover commonalities, and leave with compassion and understanding.

The power to heal is all in the hug.

Each of you are a voice. Together we are a choir, a powerful choir of change that circles the globe with love.

I already know sorrow. Today I choose joy.

The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.

It’s okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying, like freefalling to earth without a parachute. But it’s vital to our wellbeing as we process the deep anguish.

Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossible to explain child loss to a person who has never lost a child.

I carry your kindness wherever I go. That way your love touches far more than just me.

Hugs are nourishment for the heart.

She who heals herself, heals others.

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

Nothing is taken care of forever.

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites

Discrimination involves reflection and absorption.

The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

The biggest fashion mistake people make is they try to hang on to their youth. Embrace who you are now-your body, your lifestyle, your coloring.

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.