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.

Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.

Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.

You never know anyone until you marry them.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.