But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere." - My Sister's Keeper

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.