I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.

When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.

As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level.

The only thing on Earth you can count on is that there is nothing on Earth you can count on.

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-""I think as a human being, " she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to.

Book means fly in the sky, cross the desert, without wing without water.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now.

Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

Older patients who live alone can become depressed.

Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy.