The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.