"Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?"

"I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting."

"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"

"I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?"

"My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them."

"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."

"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."

"The learning process continues until the day you die."