A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times - The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.