It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.