More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.