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.

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

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.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.