I'm living my dream job! My dream job is to be in the classroom.

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.

What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.

I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.

I start at the beginning, go on to the end, then stop.

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency museums.

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.