No one can insult you without your permission.

I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.

If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.

I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.