Explore Quotes by Regina Brett

Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.

If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.

Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked in one pocket, which wasn't sanitary, but was comforting to the child who needed a tear or nose wiped.

It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.

As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it's in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column.

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone.

'Star Trek' never grabbed me. Every time I hear about Klingons, I think of those little lint balls that stick to your clothes in the dryer.

It's OK to let your children see you cry.

The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.

Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

Eating something fresh out of the oven is like a hug you can taste.

For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.

Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.