Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain.

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire

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.