A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.