A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

This is the miracle of all miracles—when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When it awakens to its potential and rises in power. That is true magic.

It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

I believed that the government would protect the children being abused. I believed they would act quickly. I was wrong.