Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

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.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Pretend to give consent to the advice of others, but if you find it suitable, take it. But if out of the right view, despise and cast it away

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

Time brings all things to pass.

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.

Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that.

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe)