Jackie Kennedy

"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 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?"

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all."

"Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death."

"You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it."

"The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future."