You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.