The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

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

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

Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.

I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.

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.