When I first held my daughter, right after she was born, I felt like it was the moment I'd been waiting my whole life for, and it just felt even more miraculous than I ever could have imagined.

Determination gets you a long way.

My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

I just hope I will be as good a mom to my child and, hopefully, children as my mom was to me.

He [Bill Clinton] likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called First Laddy.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'