If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.
The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.
We are all children of the same God, and we have to come together to solve our problems and not be fighting so much.
We need to respect choices that women make.
The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.
They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income. . . Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.
You know, I think my biggest concern [if Mitt is elected], obviously, would just be for his mental well-being. I have all the confidence in the world in his ability, in his decisiveness and his leadership skills, in his understanding of the economy, in his understanding of what's missing right now in the economy - you know, pieces that are missing to get this jump-started. So for me I think it would just be the emotional part of it.
I feel good. I think everything went good.
So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.
I love playing in America. I feel having been there a few times that I "get" America a lot more than I used to. It used to be so strange to me. It takes years to learn how to separate the actual, major, important differences from the superficial differences that aren't essential or crucial.
It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years.