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

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

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye

The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

I want to live my life, not record it.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

I am happiest when I am alone.

I am a woman above everything else.

One should always dress like a marble column.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

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

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

Pearls are always appropriate.

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