Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites. — Lady Bird Johnson

I’ve really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don’t sell for what you’re worth unless you look good. — Lady Bird Johnson

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman–it just makes you look better to have a little color. — Lady Bird Johnson

You do what you can where you are. You musn’t feel impotent because you’re not all powerful. — Claudia Alta Johnson

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart! — Lady Bird Johnson

A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive. — Lady Bird Johnson

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life. — Lady Bird Johnson

Walk away from it until you’re stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you’ll be better able to cope. — Lady Bird Johnson

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person–her husband. — Lady Bird Johnson

Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother. — Lady Bird Johnson

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers. — Lady Bird Johnson

For me, books have been a life–long resource–to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking. — Lady Bird Johnson

Encourage and support your kids because children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. — Lady Bird Johnson

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband. — Lady Bird Johnson

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. — Lady Bird Johnson

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it. — Lady Bird Johnson

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many. — Lady Bird Johnson

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. — Lady Bird Johnson

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. — Claudia Alta Johnson

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life. — Lady Bird Johnson

Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. — Lady Bird Johnson

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. — Lady Bird Johnson

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor. — Lady Bird Johnson

I have learned something about the job of being the President’s wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him. — Lady Bird Johnson

The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve. — Lady Bird Johnson

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. — Lady Bird Johnson

I love Washington, but it is a self–important town. — Lady Bird Johnson

Then there’s the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again. — Lady Bird Johnson

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye. — Lady Bird Johnson

I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it. — Lady Bird Johnson

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share. — Lady Bird Johnson

We had a delicious dinner of too much. — Lady Bird Johnson

Where flowers bloom so does hope. — Lady Bird Johnson

It’s odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don’t quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. — Claudia Alta Johnson

No news at 430 a.m. is good. — Lady Bird Johnson