The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.

Smell is a fallen angel.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.