The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

I am happiest when I am alone.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.

I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.