When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

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.

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

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