If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.

Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook her head. "Where are the values I raised you with?

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.