There’s nothing like real love. Nothing.

[Campaign sign when running for Congress in 1967:] Vote for me or I will hold my breath until I turn blue.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.

We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.