As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta for all men everywhere. We hope its proclamation by the General Assembly will be an event comparable to the proclamation in 1789 [of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man], the adoption of the Bill of Rights by the people of the U.S., and the adoption of comparable declarations at different times in other countries.

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.