I realized not long ago that by the time I leave this Earth, no matter when it is I will have officially only spent approximately 14 years of my life where I did not have to deal with cancer.
No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.
As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.
Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.
I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.
I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.
To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.
I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.
It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.
I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.
So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.
My life is organized chaos.
I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
I kind of live my life as an example, and I just never felt like I had to be on the cover of a magazine announcing that I was gay; it's just who I am. I just live my life, and I never really thought about it.
I can't complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a gorgeous part of the country.
I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story... I'm not comfortable doing that.
After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.
Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be.
I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.
Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be.
I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.
The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.
I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life.
I had to find the courage to turn my life around.
While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.
In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.
I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.
I've been fortunate with my acting career. A lot of scripts come to me. I don't mind auditioning if something that requires that, but I haven't had to in awhile, which is a nice place to be 'cause I've been on quite a lot of auditions in my life.
As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'
I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.
