I like to go to bed early.

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 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.

Strong people are ones who can smile for others' happiness.

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life.

I don't believe in happy endings but I believe in happy journeys.

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.

Actually, I've only been involved with one girl I worked with. It was Alyssa Milano. We didn't actually have an onscreen kiss - we're about to but it gets broken up.

Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.

I love to have a beer with Duncan "Cause Duncan"s me mate