I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.