People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.