Courage is exhilarating.
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.
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
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.
To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
What you don’t do can be a destructive force.
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
You always admire what you really don’t understand. – Eleanor Roosevelt.
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
Understanding is a two-way street.
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.
No human being can ever “own” another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.
The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.