All of life is a constant education.

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the country, are not due just to lack of education and to physical differences, but are due in great part to the basic fact of segregation which we have set up in this country and which warps and twists the lives not only of our Negro population, but sometimes of foreign born or even of religious groups.

Work is always an antidote to depression.