Suddenly it was fall, the season of death, the anniversary of things-going-to-hell.

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.

The enemy of love is not hate it is apathy.

I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.

I've faced the grief, I've faced the anger, and I'm ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.

Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.