I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

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.

Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

Great dreams require great courage.

Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.