She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

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.

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

The military is already sexually integrated.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.