Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

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

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.

Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.'

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

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.