My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.