My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

The military is already sexually integrated.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.