I'd sit on a horse and forget I was even sick.

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.

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic.

In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.

Sometimes, a girl just has to dive under the duvet and regroup.

The Democratic vote consists of minorities and educated whites.

Sometimes people who feel powerless, they come to bother their own kids, or they come to bother children.

It's nice when your boyfriend thinks you're beautiful.

At fifty. I thought I would be done. I thought I'd be finished by now. So I have no idea. I just leave it.

That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.