There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.