I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

It's been a process of evolving within a family company to get the autonomy I now have from a boss like my father. If you're sitting there waiting for a pat on the back, you're going to be waiting a long time.

You have to focus on your job, and if you focus on your job, you block everything out.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm...Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm