I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

Leave it to a man to mess things up

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I had trained myself to read pieces like that and silently say to myself, 'See how lucky you are?' But it had been gnawing at the inside, that part that didn't fit, that I never let myself even think about. After all, wasn't it a worse kind of guilt to be with your child and to know that you wanted to be anywhere but there?

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up