The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

I don't understand the world of the Internet. I just type up on my computer.

When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.

People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

Beauty is health. Health is beauty.