Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

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.

When you push yourself hard enough to be consistent with your positive endeavors, you would surely become a future living testimony of how beautiful life can be.

Times have changed in research and if you are not using Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google, and the like, you will be left in the dark.

One, you moved here with your father, which means your a daddy's girl. No girl leaves their mother unless they are.

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

Shun the incremental and go for the leap.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power.