What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.

When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.