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.

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

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.

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

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 remains to them?

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

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

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.

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

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

I am just an old-fashioned girl.

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.

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

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.

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

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

In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

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.

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

No one will ever feel sorry for me.

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

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.

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

Life isnt a matter of milestones but of moments.

Im like old wine. They dont bring me out very often but Im well preserved.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it.

It has been said, time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!