I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.