It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

I had thought I would hate being First Lady. . . . I loved it.

. . . a woman . . . told us she was forever getting herself into trouble. "But I just keep coming back," she said. "I just keep showing up for my life." Showing up for life. Being blessed with the rebirth that recovery brings.

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.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?