President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.

The family is the foundation of everything.