But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

Tension of opposites.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

I am in love with Hope.

She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.