I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.

I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

Life is as large as you explore it.

I want to hear one more of your storiesTangle up in your dreams, give up the fight‘Pour one more glass of that wineAnd I might not go home tonight...

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

My manager is definitely a mentor as well as Usher.

Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty.

The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.

Money is not a factor of production. But in order to have access to credit, in order to get money, in order to get an education, you have to pay the banks.

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.

But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.