A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.

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.

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.