My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

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.

You can’t afford to leave your happiness to others. Create what you wish to experience.

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

We both [me and Andrew Ridgeley ] knew that splitting up was the right thing to do, and there was no animosity between us at all.

I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land

Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.