The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

One should always dress like a marble column.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

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?

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

I want to live my life, not record it.