We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

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.