If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
I am a woman above everything else.
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?