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

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

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

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.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.