If you take stands in any way and people feel that you have any success in - a following, why those who disagree with you are going to feel very strongly about it.

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.

People can only make you inferior with your consent.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.