When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.

As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.

My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level.

Hope is a joy of heart.

The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

It’s not about the elimination of fear. Rather it’s about the elimination of the feeling that the elimination of fear is necessary before we take the next step.

Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.

A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.

The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.