Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

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 my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

Even though people may be well known they still 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, death.

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.