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.

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!