People can only make you inferior with your consent.

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.

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 things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.