We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

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.

Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la descurajare: la nivelul meu obisnuit, ignor faptul ca exist.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

When you can't focus on one thing, you will be distracted by anything.

This man was no servant. She looked up at him in acute agitation and knew: this man was now her master.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

Love knows no time, or distance, and it certainly knows no reason.

International football is one clog further up the football ladder

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.

My father speaks for himself, through his music.