Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.

Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

It's not that Michelle Obama is trying to conceal her true feelings, it's that she does not want to be a political liability to her husband.

I don't like corporate diversity workshops.

Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road.

The woman was simply leaving us alone with our future, the future she wouldn't be a part of. She didn't know how to do it or what it was, but she was trying to give it to us.

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life.

The most important thing as a comic and a creator is to have a robust standpoint.

If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.

You are my glue. Without you, I'd be nothing but broken pieces.

I never, ever wanted to be an actor.

Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.

And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure!