No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.
Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
Friendship with oneself is all important.
Every day do something that frightens you.
We must preserve our right to think and differ.
Whatever come we have to meet it.
It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one’s life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one’s official duties are at an end.
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.
I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country.
Get out of the way as quickly as you’re not needed.
Everybody wants something.
Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire.
Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.