I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

Maybe we all change over time.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.