Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.