You always admire what you really don't understand.
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
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 with...
Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you a feeling that you...
America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we ca...
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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?
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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 would be curiosity.
I could not at any age be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never for whatever reason turn his back on...
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.