I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

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.

Heaven will happen someday, but let's not wait. Heaven can start now.

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.

My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

I've always been attracted to action stuff.

I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom...but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.

Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun

There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.

Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.