I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.

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.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.