My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

At our best, we are all teachers

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.

I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.

If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.