On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.

After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Curiosity must be kept alive.

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.