If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.

There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.