Understanding what I give up and knowing that I choose freely makes my choice more precious to me.

For as long as I am your mother and you are my only child, i will worry and hope and pray for you. Do not ask the impossible.

I cannot give up chasing after happiness simply because there might be pain down the road.

God will make known to you how He wants you to use this gift.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

There are no rules to writing a song.

All abilities come from one mind