I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

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.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

...you never possess a cat; you are allowed to be in a cat's life, which, of course, is a privilege.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow pizza.

I'm sometimes afraid I'll cross a line and it'll be difficult to come back, say, to dinner.

When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.

You are the captain of your own ship; don't let anyone else take the wheel.

If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.