Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

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.

Money doesn't give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.

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

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.