Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.