The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Choose a challenge instead of competence

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.