We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.