If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who can do an active job in their community like being a mayor, but who cannot go to Washington or Albany or wherever the capital of the state is. There are others who can, can leave home, whose children are older and so forth. I think it all is a personal decision.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.