My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

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.

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.

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.