You know how exasperated you can be when you're the mother of five young boys.

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.

How do I have productive days with minimum drama? Simple

I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.

I'm probably a little too uninhibited.

Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine.

And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.

To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

Music to me is something I did as a hobby.

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.