After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.