I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

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.

We open our hearts to receive God when we open our hearts to people

We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics.

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.

It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and aphoristic.

When you come to a dark valley, a difficult season or a sickness, don't worry about it, God will give you the grace and strength you need.

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.