Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?

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

[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'?