A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.

Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.

There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.

No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person -- her husband.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.