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

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.