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

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

We must do that which we think we cannot.