Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

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.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.