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.

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

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.