“A lot of people telling the same story from their various points of view.”

We’re always hardest on our own work, I guess.

A prayer is directed by a supplicant toward someone/something powerful who can grant a favor, and by putting daughters in that position, you place them in the position of power.

I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.

People always – when you rise, whenever you’re getting to a point where you’re a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren’t going to like you.

After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?

These are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes.

I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn’t call me for two weeks? I’m able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

We’ve all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.

Things flow better and everyone is in a better mood because they’re like, ‘I got my point across and it sounds like I want it to sound’