Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.

I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

I am not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now.

I think the hardest part of being a working mom is that I miss my kids a lot.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life.

I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.

As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.

By the way, Howard Zinn's History of America is front and center at the gift shop of the New York Historical Society. The New York Historical Society is deluged with school kids on a daily basis.