If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

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.

We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.