Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude

Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.'

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

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.