The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.

I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.

It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.