“She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was.”

“Chris didnt need to learn how to conquer fear. He had to embrace it, walk with it and listen to it.”

“I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.”

“[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“If we define "beauty" as having blue eyes (and only blue eyes), then we will, indeed, find a "gene for beauty." If we define "intelligence" as the performance on only one kind of test, then we will...”

“Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or...”

“If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of genetic exchange between them.”