Staring down hard truth takes guts.

I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.

You don't know which way a thing will come at you, but you need to welcome it with your whole heart which ever way it arrives.

...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.

And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

They marched. Not for themselves. They marched to remember the ones who didn't make it back. They marched because seeing so much loss can teach you about life. they marched because we're all fighting a war whether we know it or not...a war for our minds and souls and what we believe in.