You will find that [as the First Lady] you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

A woman will always have to be better than a man in any job she undertakes.

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.

We need our radicals.

Happiness is not a goal … it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

If someone betrays you once, it?s their fault; if they betray you twice, it?s your fault.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

If you lose money you lose much, if you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.