It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters.

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

He would take the blow so you didn't have to.

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami.

Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.