Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

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.

When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.