A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

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.

People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.