We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them..

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are..

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story..

Nothing that doesn’t push you past your limits can change your life. It’s true of work, it’s true of parenting, and it’s true — a hundred times over ….

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be..

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs..

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome..

We are at our finest when we take care of each other..

Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodi….

Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful..

It's vital to learn how to make the best of things..

Success is doing the right thing for who you are..

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. T….

There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world..

And despite everything I know now, I still believe, as I did when I was little, that there is an entire universe of things that my mother knows that ….

The eyes see everything through the heart..

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the ….

And so my hope for you, good boy, as you grow taller every day, is that you will learn to take good care of yourself, and you will learn to take good….

We're looking for stories that speak to us. We're looking for stories that connect us with something true. But, instead, a lot of the time we get str….

I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use w….

It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted..