I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

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

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

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

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.