Almost everybody embraces life.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

In life, toughness and roughness go together.

When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.

Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'

We need a radically truthful way to acknowledge reproductive freedom.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

Accidents. It's all about the accidents.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Love not what you are but only what you may become.

It's more than magnificent; it's mediocre.