Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.

Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

Being a single mother should not stop you from helping your children to reach their full potential.

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

Jesus is a powerful guy in Hollywood. Not quite as powerful as Vin Diesel, but powerful.

Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.

Competition is for dogs and horses.

Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself.

When your world is in pieces, you can choose to see it as crumbling or building. Your attitude, resilience and determination mark the difference.

I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.