The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.