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'Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

When you've lost a loved one, you realise how grateful you are for any help in those moments, and any scheme that tries to help families during that terrible time gets my backing.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.

I'd like to give people the hope and help I didn't have and that I had to learn by myself.

I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.

I wanted to help women and their families.

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.