I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.

At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.