“If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope…” Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

One man can make a difference and every man should try.
Written on a card for an exhibit which travelled around the US when the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston was first opening (1979), quoted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) edited by Suzy Platt
- Inspiration
- Motivation & Goals
Minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Instructions to press secretary Pamela Turnure; Quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983) by Ralph G Martin
- Journalism
I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.
Response to Stephen Spender, on being asked what she considered her proudest accomplishment, as quoted in The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Portrait in Her Own Words (2004) by Bill Adler, p. 5, and p. 232
- Success