I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

It is technically a failure when you don't try.

I think everybody has a hard time connecting, but as you get older and you want more and you expect more and you know more, it's just different. If you start wanting too much from it without it naturally unfolding, then that makes it bad. If you start not wanting anything, then you are not serious. I mean it's just this conundrum of issues.

It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.