No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.

This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

What you hope for, you also fear.