"If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it."

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness."

"Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so."

"A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world."

"There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country."

"Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously."

"I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children."

"The foundation of joy is the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."