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

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

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

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

If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

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

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.