Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.

No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core.

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.

Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.