I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

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.

The beauty all around you is insignificant in comparison to the beauty within you.

Time flows like memories on the shores of the past.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

I look forward to working out every day.

More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.