You have to recognize that deep within your soul, you know who you are - and let [the criticism] go right by you. If you're reacting to it, you're letting it get to you.

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.

Angels were created into form so they can interact with Earth in a physical way.

Nothing restricts your success more than your limiting self-beliefs and fears.

I can barely breathe but I think that his lips might be better than oxygen at the moment.

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

Always be civil, but with a plan to neutralise everyone in the room.

One is born to be a great dancer.

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

The thing about us is we're honest. If we're asked whether we take drugs, we say yes. I was brought up by my mom not to be a liar.

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.