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

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.

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

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.

If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us.

Yeah, I was thinking about taking one of those showers where you huddle in the corner fully clothed and cry, " Archer offered.

The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture.

Prayer can do anything God can do and God can do anything!

I was 35 years old and not in the best of shape. I spent many late nights playing music, drinking beer, and eating Taco Bell.

Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

You can't live in the past, musically if you do, you are dead.

Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.

Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message.

[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.