It can be here today and gone tomorrow.

If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancers, and cancer is very curable if you catch it early.

When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.

How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people I care about in my life and that is where my values are and those are my riches.

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.

When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.

I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.

Creativity is the DNA of innovation, the virus of evolution, the antidote to automation

I was an overnight sensation.

I just want to be myself.

All the hard work means something. That's all you can really ask for, as an actor.

I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.

This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

Some people try to say I'm British by the way I'm speaking. But I think I'm more Canadian, because I speak really slow. Midwestern and Canadian.