The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

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

Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.

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.

I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.

The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.