One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.

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.

experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.