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

As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

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.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

Comparison is the thief of all joy.