Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.