If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

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.

A great teacher is the architect of a great future.

The more we serve, the more strength, we receive to keep the good deeds.

You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...

Never be defined by what has happened to you in the past, it was just a life lesson, not a life sentence. ~ Donald Pillai

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you and anything that is ever going to happen to you is just a thought.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Life is all about Living, Forgiving and Loving!.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.