There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.

What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.