A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.

If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancers, and cancer is very curable if you catch it early.

When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.

How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people I care about in my life and that is where my values are and those are my riches.

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.

When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.

It can be here today and gone tomorrow.

I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatness--but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.

Everybody has something wrong with them.

Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.

A lot of people perceive women as sexy based on their outer appeal. But there's no way to mistake if a woman is confident.