The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.

You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.

Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.

If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.

While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.