It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.