be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was an ingredient in my baking more concenctrated than any extract, more pungent than any spice; an ingredient that everyone would recognize and no one was able to name: it was regret, and it rose when one least expected.

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.