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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.
When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
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.
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.
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
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.
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.
The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.
It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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.
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.
No one will ever feel sorry for me.
It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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