We know you understand that even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that… - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Do you know what I think of history? … For a while I thought history was something that bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so... No one'll ever know everything about Jack. But … history made Jack what he was … this lonely, little sick boy … scarlet fever … this little boy sick so much of the time, reading in bed, reading history … reading the Knights of the Round Table … and he just liked that last song. Then I thought, for Jack history was full of heroes. And if it made him this way, if it made him see the heroes, maybe other little boys will see. Men are such a combination of good and bad … He was such a simple man. But he was so complex, too. Jack had this hero idea of history, the idealistic view, but then he had that other side, the pragmatic side... his friends were all his old friends; he loved his Irish Mafia.

A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn’t spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

One man can make a difference and every man should try.

For the 1964 JFK Library traveling exhibit brochure, Jacqueline Kennedy wrote: 'He believed that one man can make a difference – and that every man should try.' Reprinted in Look 1966; often misattributed to JFK; RFK quoted it in 1968 speeches.