I love my husband. I believe in him, and I am proud of his accomplishments.

Helping another person gives one the deepest pleasure in the world.

Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

Even when people can't speak your language, they can tell if you have love in your heart.

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

I do or die, but I never cancel out.

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

Caring for others creates the spirit of a nation.

[On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.

I dont have time to be depressed.

[On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

Celebrate the Ides of March but remember your own warnings less as Caesar learned, you can get killed in many ways

Shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true, Jace.

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.

Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped.

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.

I can walk the line, if it ain't too straight.