Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.'

I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!