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.

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.