The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

I never waste time looking back.

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

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.