When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad. . . To me the gift of life is contained in the command, whatever happens: "Don't let it get you. Just keep on going." Thus, I try to think of the good that I have already experienced and what will still be coming.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.