You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

When I think of Kansas, I think of family.

I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

I always wanted children late; I had my first daughter at 39 and the second at 45.