Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain.
It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.
If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
In Russia, as I sat there day after day wearing headphones, listening to the interpreter struggle to make our words relevant, I wondered if we could establish meaningful rapport with a nation that had never seen raisins dance in dark glasses on TV...never had a garage sale.