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.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

Yeah, I'm working on the 7 volume of "The Life Of One Kid", but the cover it's not written 7 volume...

It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.

Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!

All wisdom ends in paradox.

There is no illusion great than fear.

Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.

Janie blinks and leans against the wall, just in case. But it's no one's dream. It's just the end of some things. And the beginning of others.

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.