I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.'

Celebrate the cracks, because that's how the light comes in.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.

The internet has created a transnational audience. If you publish something in the New York Times, it's read all over the world. Who knows how big this audience is or how long it will last.

Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

Don't call me crazy.I'm a survivor. I do what I have to do to survive.