If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

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.'

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

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.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.