I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

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.

Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.

In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

Write to your newspaper. Call your Member of Congress. Email President Obama. Speak out for a cleaner, more stable future for all of us.

Platitudes are generally the oldest and profoundest of truths.

Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past. [Say no ill of the year till it be past.]

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.