Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.'