When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

When you 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.'

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.