If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.