As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.

But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

Finally, I get to have houseplants and they stay alive.

But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.

So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.

What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!

Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.

I think the American Dream for most people is just survival.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.