I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.

It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.