"Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career."
"What one has to do usually can be done."
"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."
"Anger is one letter away from danger."
"I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot."
"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
"...marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career."
"I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."
"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
"If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours."
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their own dreams..."
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."
"No one from the beginning of time has had security."
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else."
"You always admire what you really don't understand."
"Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."