The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.

I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It's everywhere. It's all around us all the time.

It's a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, 'I get to play the First Lady.' It's just fun to say.

Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.