While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.

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

I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

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