There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

Im always terrified when Im writing.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.