I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.

Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I am not very introspective.

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

Whole generations have forgotten history.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.