If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing.
No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
There are no have-to’s, just choices.
There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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.
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.
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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.
When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.
Be confident, not certain.
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?