I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

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.

you have everything. still, you have nothing . sad .

Your positive thoughts are both the prayer, and the answer to your prayer.

We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.

Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.

There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.

Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

You can't always hire great service providers, but you can create them.

Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared.