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

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

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.