The military is already sexually integrated.

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.

Time has been given to us as a sacred covenant, that if wasted will haunt us throughout eternity, in the form of regret

If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.

Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.

Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.

That sweet sleep which medicines all pain.

I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.