I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

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.

Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with