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.

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

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

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

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.