No one will ever feel sorry for me.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.