In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

[My mother] was the oldest of two sisters and two brothers, and she grew up with her brothers, who were about her age. She grew up, to the age of ten, like a wild colt, and then all of a sudden that was over. They had forced on her her 'woman's destiny' by saying, 'This isn't done, this isn't good, this isn't worthy of a lady.'