Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

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

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost