That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched..

I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a….

I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left..

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'ar….

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher..

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America..

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner..

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who….

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it..

Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towe….

Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his hea….

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else..

I think the earlier stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest. Particularly because the person knows that they are losing awareness. They're aware that t….

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives.….

Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. C….

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying..

I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness o….

Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishi….

My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person….

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships..

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them..