When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?

Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy

This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.