To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Change means the unknown.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which...
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
What one has to do usually can be done.
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.