But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

I'm not just a cuckolded wife.

I'm a puzzle doer.

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

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.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

We're all going to die.

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

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

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

I want to live.

I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

I come out of real life.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

The military is already sexually integrated.

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

I think I did marry a marvelous man.

Maybe we all change over time.

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

I hope I have important things to say.

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

I grew up in a Navy family.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.