You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

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.

You never know how long it will take. The route to success is unpredictable. So pack the essentials: parcels of love and peace, packets of patience and hope, and bundles of perseverance!

Of all the girls that are so smart There's none like pretty Sally She is the darling of my heart And lives in our alley.

But as far as the fame goes, my parents make sure they keep me grounded, for sure. They make me wash dishes still.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.

Everybody's got creativity. Dive within to the ocean of infinite creativity.

The great coming to age of cable is really a beautiful thing. No commercials. It's like a small theater. It's a cinema on a TV screen.

The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.

He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.

I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.