You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

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.

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.

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.

Have the mind of a fox, the heart of a lion, the tongue of a serpent, the flair of a swan, and the soul of a dove.

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

In one sense, all causes of a problem are 'current', although many of them represent the residue of earlier learning or unprocessed memories.

I always say to myself what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Whether someone believes something or not, believer or non-believer, as long as you are a member of the human family, you need warm human feeling, warmhearted feeling.

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.

The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.

I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.