You have to speak your dream out loud.

And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much.

Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely pause to scratch your ankle.

Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.

How seriously can I take myself? I'm just one of six billion people, right?

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.

We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.

He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime.

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.

I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

The danger is different from the fear. ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.

We decentralise permissions over the use of our communications.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.

I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream