I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink." Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.

Friends aren't any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.