... 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.

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.

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.

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

Pages burnt, memories buried, I wakeor think I'm awake. Or dreaming still?

Why? Because I refuse to erase a man's lifetime? I tell you Brady had the same right as Cates: the right to be wrong!

Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity!

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

It's something I worry about when I'm working out. I don't want to get too fit. Because I don't want the new DaVinci of this Millennium to say, "You. I have found my muse. I have to sculpt you."

Love is indeed at root the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

There are a lot of young artists that are dope.

I had a female business partner once. Didn't work.

I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.

Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.