Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.

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.

People who have so much of their personality invested in the Internet can’t really survive as whole individuals without it.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

I think one of the great things that I have seen happen since the rise of the movement for black lives is the growth of more training and leadership spaces.

God is life; and in that life which is God there are no years. ... The human sense of life is not your real life.

A healthy mind can live in an unhealthy body.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

When you're truly happy, you are being yourself.