Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Life was meant to be lived.

After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.