My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

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!'