Life has got to be lived – that’s all there is to it.
Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.
The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.
Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren’t paying attention to you.
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.
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.
Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
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.
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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.