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.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

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).

Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.