In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough.

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.

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.