I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me. – From 14 Days: A Mother, A Daughter, A Two-Week Goodbye

Real patience is not the same as waiting impatiently for something for a long time. Patience is having patience with patience.

When you end a chapter in your book of 'Wrong Men, ' don't close the book of your love story, just turn the page.

Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.

A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch

It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections