How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

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

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.