I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.

A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who can do an active job in their community like being a mayor, but who cannot go to Washington or Albany or wherever the capital of the state is. There are others who can, can leave home, whose children are older and so forth. I think it all is a personal decision.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.