Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

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.

Whatever you think again and again affects your feelings and is impressed upon subconscious mind and becomes a part of your personality.

Resiliency is the body's internal response to a stressful situation.

The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.

You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I love him and I want it to stay.

It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room.

There is no illusion great than fear.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.