You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

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

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

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.

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.