I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

Secrets tear you apart.

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing).

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.