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

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.

If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.

... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?

A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.