Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

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