Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

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.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself.

Thou art true and honest as a dog.

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

It's just seems life without music would be death.