By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

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.

I’ve always said we can’t all experience everything, but we can all learn from each other’s experiences, making learning curves shorter and pitfalls avoidable.

Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.

Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk.

I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road.

No one knows ish about ish, though some ish does get much closer to the real ish.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.

Worry worships the words of the enemy

If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.

I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.