You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

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.

Dare to imagine. Dare to be. Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil. The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn.

It is winter--the best time to dream of spring.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

The more you take away the less there is to hide behind and that's when the true talent comes out.

The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.

You can't love nature with a gun

That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.

The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid.