Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

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 should be curiosity.

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.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

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 mean very little.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

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.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

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 experience behind him.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

What one has to do usually can be done.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

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.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

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.

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 without expression.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.