I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.

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 following ten throws went a variety of places. I never hit the target, but I was getting closer. Isabella was laughing so hard she wrote "Please stop can't breathe" in the dirt with her finger.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

You breathe better when you're rich.

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

It is important to always love what you do and do what you love. This is my mentality towards my career and my personal life.

Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

How is it that you live, and what is it you do?