There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them.

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.