I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

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.

I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusion for a very long time.

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest? When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.

I've been all over the world - honorary knighthood .

There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or that aspect of nature.

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.