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

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

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.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

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?

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

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

I want to live my life, not record it.

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

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

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

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?

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

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

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.

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

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.

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

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

I dont think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

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

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.