I have seen that grief can be very different for different people. While the range of emotions experienced is similar, the way we deal with those emotions isn't, necessarily.

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

A person becomes a real individual when he has set and accurately defined his goal

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

Better not perceive yourselves too high, O humans.We only value mankind as our experimentation object.

Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.

The nice thing about Toronto is there's not a competition.

Yes, we need to change, but simple changes can have profound impacts.

I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.

All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.