All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.

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.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.