Pel-i-cans, their beaks hold more than their bellies can.

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.

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.

At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.

Pulling at the hem of my emotion was the creeping sense that it might well take until 2036 for this child in my arms to feel a fraction of what I already felt for her.

It's easy to love kids who make you feel competent.

What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.

All good things pass away.

Love lost is better than hate found. True criticism is better than false praise. Genuine enemies are better than counterfeit friends.

A state has the right to prohibit the killing of dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes.

Unfortunately, it's possible to be able to do something extremely well that nobody ever wants done.

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.

I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.

It's like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.