The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

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

I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations.

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

All of life is a constant education.

Everybody wants something.