"My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house."

"I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols."

"When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'"

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."

"I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service."

"The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good."

"It is a quiet truth that the river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a quiet truth that where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion — an essential principle for the reflective life."