Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

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.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

The wings of prayer carry high and far.

As a doctor who took care of patients for 25 years, I saw the problems with America's health care system every day.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.

In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement.