I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

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

There are no have-to's, just choices

Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.