For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

Curiosity must be kept alive.

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.