In the space of his years, my body had taken its full shape and my heart had grown in wisdom, for I understood what it was to be a mother.

Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.

The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.

Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books.

Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

[The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the matter, energy, space, and time of the cosmos.

I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.

...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.

Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.

Alcohol does kill brain cells, because you've lost it.