As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.

My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level.

There is a vibrational effect in every action, just as there is vibration that rings from every letter in every word.

It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief—my experience also—that women do not have the need to collect that men have.

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.

Tennis is a world out of touch with reality

The fact that the scrub literally comes out into your hand as a powder and then activates with water is a really cool thing.

Lighting one candle from another - Winter night