In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations.

I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.