It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life.... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.

In America, public opinion is the leader

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.