When I heard that heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined - when I heard that, I knew. The other thing that's very important is that heart disease...is preventable. There are some specific lifestyle changes that women can make: losing weight, not smoking, exercising, eating healthy foods. Knowing the risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, [being] overweight. And if you have heart disease in your family, you should see your doctor. Because this disease is preventable.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.

Any criticism of someone you love is hard to take.

I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?

I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.

We seldom give each other advice-I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage.