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

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.

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.

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 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.

Secrets are gold and we are the miners.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

I'm always looking for a way to serve the nation, but I don't believe that it will be as vice president and I'm really not seeking it, I'm not requesting it and it won't happen.

Sunny days give us happiness; stormy days give us wisdom.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

I'm not getting up in the helicopter. I have a premonition that I'm going to get killed in a helicopter crash.