Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.