You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

I really didn't want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing.

I think it wasn't so much that the White House altered me in any essential way as that I found the resources with which to respond to a series of challenges. You never know what you can do until you have to do it. In the beginning, it was like going to a party you're terrified of, and finding out to your amazement that you're having a good time.

I don't feel that because I'm First Lady, I'm very different from what I was before. It can happen to anyone. After all, it has happened to anyone.

I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left.

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.