I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.

No one can insult you without your permission.

As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.

What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.