I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.