"I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility."

"But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together."

"You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him."

"I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it."

"Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness."

"The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough."

"I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life."

"I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique."