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.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.