I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.
Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.
If it’s a man’s game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.
True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.
There are three fundamentals for human happiness – love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike.
Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.
What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.
You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with.
Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.
How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.
A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.
You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!
Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.
If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.
Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost.
A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.
Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.