Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

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.

Her two worlds, two lives that she tried so hard to keep separate, were crashing together. And she felt helpless to stop it.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

Part of being young is you thinking that gaining 6 lbs. Is the end of the world

I'm focused on myself and on what I've got to do...I'm just trying to get back on track and keep this positive mindset.