How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

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.

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

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

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