I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.

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.

Don't over-focus on the negatives and under-focus the positives in your life.

I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway.

Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

If I were white I could capture the world.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.