It's OK to let your children see you cry.

No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

When I was 41, I found a lump the size of a grape in my right breast. I ended up bald, sick and exhausted from surgeries, chemo and radiation treatments. Ah, but I got to live.

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

Time heals almost everything. Give time time.