Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Sea sand is sea sand.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.

Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

I'm not a fashionista. I don't have much experience in that world.

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice I consider them professional risks.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

I've been living, I've lived in New York since I was 18 years old and traveled pretty much all over the world.