I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

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.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.