"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."

"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."

"The giving of love is an education in itself."

"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."

"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people."

"You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority."

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."

"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."

"Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth."

"Actors are one family over the entire world."

"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."

"You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself."

"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."

"Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide."

"I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country."

"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."

"What you don't do can be a destructive force."

"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect."

"It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation."

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

"Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life."

"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares."

"The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are."

"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

"Understanding is a two-way street."

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."

"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality."

"I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role."

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."

"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him."

"Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little."

"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."