Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.

It's all about new techniques -- simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster, but not worse.

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

Broaden yourself. You don't have to focus when you're 20. I think the broader you are, the better it is. Later you can focus on your real interests and ideas. The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.

We’re not so free that we don’t have to listen to rules, and laws, and regulations. Those are important. But the spirit, the freedom of the spirit, that’s what I think of American Dream, that we are free here to do what we want to do, what we set out to do.

As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.

Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.