The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

Pearls are always appropriate.

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

Knowing you, I understood myself.

I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.

The climate continues to deteriorate.

The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.