I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.

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.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is the journey that makes or unmakes you.

I was just sort of moving through time.