What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.