Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.

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.

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger in a man when he reaches an advanced age.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.

Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.