A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thir….

That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world..

The power of women united, I am again reminded, is an invincible thing..

He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know..

Risk is the universe's way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating nature of life..

We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need..

It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people..

Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires..

See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important..

Life is a lease and God is the landlord..

If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will out..

In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype o….

Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives..

In fact, a case could be made that worrying about a problem actually prevents you from resolving it, because it deceives your mind into thinking that….

Sometimes if you wait too long, it's too late..

This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we….

I think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that's all yo….

Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to deat….

Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be set. We dreamed of Got….

I focused on the passing houses filled with couples who’d somehow survived this teenage craziness of ‘he likes her but she likes him and he likes som….

As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. Sh….