To undo mistakes is always harder than not to create them originally, but we seldom have foresight. Therefore, we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.
One should always sleep in all of one’s guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.
I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.
I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.
At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future – for generations who didn’t know the man and didn’t know the era in which he lived.
The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.
The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.
We need our radicals.
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
The most important word in the English language is hope.
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.
On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.
For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.