Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’