I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person...Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world.

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

Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

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

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.