Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.