In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

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.

And in the end, she left a scarand I knew that washow she wanted tobe remembered.She wanted to leaveher mark in theworldwithout gettingher heart tooattached to it.

Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds. (91)

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

I'm an actor, that's my contribution.

Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.