You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.

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

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.