Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.

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.

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!