There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.