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

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform witchcraft. They simply interpret what they are told and what tests reveal. They diagnose and prescribe treatment. Our responsibility is to help doctors know what is going on in our bodies and to insist on clear, precise, understandable language in response.

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