I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.

You have to speak your dream out loud.

And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much.

Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely pause to scratch your ankle.

Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.

How seriously can I take myself? I'm just one of six billion people, right?

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.

We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.

He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime.

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.

This is the difference time createsWe bleed our misbehaviorAnd in silent prayer, repentIt is only necessary that we fall away againInto love

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak.

It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K.

The radiation detoxification process exists in nature. It is called: Hibernation.

Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”And she sprinted away, up the s

I love guys who know how to dress. I love the motorcycle boots, and I love the skinnier jeans with jackets and scarves. Anybody who gets his clothes at All Saints, that's my guy.

All my favorite movies are American movies since I was a kid.

We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.

The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's how are your parents doing.

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.