As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect - that migrates like a bird or a whale!

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.

I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.

To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.

Sometimes people get angry and do things they shouldn't. Things they regret.

Sunflowers for Sarita is a fast-paced, high caliber romantic suspense. I couldn't stop reading!

My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.

He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.

Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

A word to the wise is sufficient.

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

I love to cry. It's such a great release. If I'm just tired - jetlagged, I didn't get any sleep, I want to cry. I think it's important to cry.

I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

I will fight to the death for one's right to be able to practice in their temple, their mosque, or in their church, even if they have a different belief than I do.