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I Was Perfectly Certain That I Had Nothing To Offer Of An Individual Nature And That My Only Chance Of Doing My Duty As The Wife Of A Public Official Was To Do Exactly As The Majority Of Women Were Doing.

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I Was Perfectly Certain

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I Was Perfectly Certain That I Had Nothing To Offer Of An Individual Nature And That My Only Chance Of Doing My Duty As The Wife Of A Public Official Was To Do Exactly As The Majority Of Women Were Doing.

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Only A Man's Character Is The Real Criterion Of Worth.

The Only Things One Can Admire At Length Are Those One Admires Without Knowing Why.

For Our Own Success To Be Real, It Must Contribute To The Success Of Others.

To Leave The World Richer—that Is The Ultimate Success.

Ultimate Success

Practically Nothing We Do Ever Stands By Itself. If It Is Good, It Will Serve Some Good Purpose In The Future. If It Is Evil, It May Haunt Us And Handicap Our Efforts In Unimagined Ways.

A Little Simplification Would Be The First Step Toward Rational Living, I Think.

Inspirational Life

Whatever Come We Have To Meet It.

Feelings, Too, Are Facts. Emotion Is A Fact. Human Experience Is A Fact. It Is Often Possible To Gain More Real Insight Into Human Beings And Their Motivation By Reading Great Fiction Than By Personal Acquaintance.

In Business Courtesy And Efficiency Have A Symbiotic Relationship.

If Many Of Our Young People Have Lost The Excitement Of The Early Settlers, Who Had A Country To Explore And Develop, It Is Because No One Remembers To Tell Them That The World Has Never Been So Challenging, So Exciting... Perhaps The Older Generation Is Often To Blame With Its Cautious Warning: “take A Job That Will Give You Security, Not Adventure.” But I Say To The Young: “do Not Stop Thinking Of Life As An Adventure. You Have No Security Unless You Can Live Bravely, Excitingly, And Imaginatively; Unless You Can Choose A Challenge Instead Of A Competence.

Work Is Always An Antidote To Depression.

I Have Often Felt That I Cheated My Children A Little. I Was Never So Totally Theirs As Most Mothers Are. I Gave To Audiences Whatbelonged To My Children, Got Back From Audiences The Love My Children Longed To Give Me.

Usefulness, Whatever Form It May Take, Is The Price We Should Pay For The Air We Breathe And The Food We Eat And The Privilege Of Being Alive.

No, I Have Never Wanted To Be A Man. I Have Often Wanted To Be More Effective As A Woman, But I Have Never Felt That Trousers Would Do The Trick!

Be Flexible, But Stick To Your Principles.

There Is In Every Country An Antipathy To The Foreigner.

Success In Marriage Depends On Being Able, When You Get Over Being In Love, To Really Love....you Never Know Anyone Until You Marry Them.

Anyone Who Thinks Must Think Of The Next War As They Would Of Suicide.

Each Time You Learn Something New You Must Readjust The Whole Framework Of Your Knowledge

Every Woman Wants To Be First To Someone Sometime In Her Life And That Desire Is The Explanation For Many Strange Things Women Do.

Friendship With Oneself Is All Important.

Comparison Is The Thief Of All Joy.

You Achieve Strength, Braveness And Confidence By Each Experience In Which You Really Halt To Search Dread During The Deal With

It Has Been A Long Fight To Put The Control Of Our Economic System In The Hands Of The Government.

For Instance, It Is Certain That Women Do Not Want A Woman For President. Nor Would They Have The Slightest Confidence In Her Ability To Fulfill The Functions Of That Office.

Ability Is Not Something To Be Saved, Like Money, In The Hope That You Can Draw Interest On It. The Interest Comes From The Spending. Unused Ability, Like Unused Muscles, Will Atrophy. It Is Tragic To Realize That The Majority Of Human Beings, Even The So-called Educated, Call Upon Only The Smallest Fraction Of Their Potential Capacity. They Leave Many Talents Dormant. They Fail To Develop Their Mental Qualities. They Are Almost Unaware Of The Degree Of Energy Upon Which They Might Call To Build A Full And Rewarding Life.

We Will Have To Want Peace, Want It Enough To Pay For It, Before It Becomes An Accepted Rule.

You Should Always Own A Black Dress Because No One Ever Remembers A Black Dress.

The American Dream Can No More Remain Static Than Can The American Nation.... We Cannot Any Longer Take An Old Approach To World Problems. They Aren't The Same Problems. It Isn't The Same World. We Must Not Adopt The Methods Of Our Ancestors; Instead, We Must Emulate That Pioneer Quality In Our Ancestors That Made Them Attempt New Methods For A New World.

There Are No Have-to's, Just Choices

Campaign Behavior For Wives: Always Be On Time. Do As Little Talking As Humanly Possible. Lean Back In The Parade Car So Everybody Can See The President.

I Have Always Felt That It Was Important That Everyone Who Was A Worker Join A Labor Organization.

It Is Curious How Much More Interest Can Be Evoked By A Mixture Of Gossip, Romance And Mystery Than By Facts.

Those Of Us Who Believe In The Right Of Any Human Being To Belong To Whatever Church He Sees Fit, And To Worship God In His Own Way, Cannot Be Accused Of Prejudice When We Do Not Want To See Public Education Connected With Religious Control Of The Schools, Which Are Paid For By Taxpayers' Money.

My Experience Has Been That Work Is Almost The Best Way To Pull Oneself Out Of The Depths.

If We Fail To Meet Our Problems Here, No One Else In The World Will Do So. If We Fail, The Heart Goes Out Of Progressives Throughout The World.

Do The Things That Interest You And Do Them With All Your Heart.

I Kept Praying That I Might Be Able To Prevent A Repetition Of This Stupidity Called War. I Have Tried To Keep The Promise I Made To Myself, But The Progress That The World Is Making Toward Peace Seems Like The Crawling Of A Little Child, Very Halting And Slow.

If We Want A Free And Peaceful World, If We Want To Make The Deserts Bloom And Man Grow To Greater Dignity As A Human Being - We Can Do It.

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Sailors Have The Cleanest Bodies And The Filthiest Minds.

...no Matter How Avid They Themselves May Be For Praise And Appreciation, People Are Often Niggardly In Giving It To Others, However Merited It Is.

At All Times, Day By Day, We Have To Continue Fighting For Freedom Of Religion, Freedom Of Speech, And Freedom From Want... For These Are Things That Must Be Gained In Peace As Well As In War.

We All Grow Older And We All Have To Live With Ourselves.

I Found That Almost Everyone Had Something Interesting To Contribute To My Education.

Something Interesting

It Is So Much Easier To Be Enthusiastic Than To Reason!

After The Discovery In 1918 Of Love Letters Revealing That Franklin Was Involved With Lucy Mercer: The Bottom Dropped Out Of My Own Particular World, I Faced Myself, My Surroundings, My World, Honestly For The First Time.

To Tell The People In The West Not To Use Their Cars Means That These People May Never See Another Soul For Weeks And Weeks Nor Have A Way Of Getting A Sick Person To A Doctor.

Everyone Has The Right To Rest And Leisure, Including Reasonable Limitation Of Working Hours And Periodic Holidays With Pay.

I Believe In Active Citizenship, For Men And Women Equally, As A Simple Matter Of Right And Justice. I Believe We Will Have Better Government In All Of Our Countries When Men And Women Discuss Public Issues Together And Make Their Decisions On The Basis Of Their Different Areas Of Experience And Their Common Concern For The Welfare Of Their Families And Their World.

I Believe That Anyone Can Conquer Fear By Doing The Things He Fears To Do, Provided He Keeps Doing Them Until He Gets A Record Of Successful Experience Behind Him.

When All Is Said And Done, And Statesmen Discuss The Future Of The World, The Fact Remains That People Fight These Wars.

The Purpose Of Life Is To Live It, To Taste Experience To The Utmost, To Reach Out Eagerly And Without Fear For Newer And Richer Experience.

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You In The Unions Do Not Yet Represent All Of Labor. But I Hope Some Day You Will, Because I Believe That It Is Through Strength, Through The Fact That People Who Know What People Need Are Working To Make This Country A Better Place For All People, That We Will Help The World To Accept Our Leadership And Understand That, Under Our Form Of Government And Through Our Way Of Life, We Have Something To Offer Them.

Because They Have So Little, Children Must Rely On Imagination Rather Than Experience.

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The Choices We Make Are Ultimately Our Responsibility.

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When You Cease To Make A Contribution, You Begin To Die.

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Life Was Meant To Be Lived.

Inspirational Life

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Never Be Bored, And You Will Never Be Boring.

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Happiness Is Not A Goal, It Is A By-product. For What Keeps Our Interest In Life And Makes Us Look Forward To Tomorrow Is Giving Pleasure To Other People.

An Economic Policy Which Does Not Consider The Well-being Of All Will Not Serve The Purposes Of Peace And The Growth Of Well-being Among The People Of All Nations.

The Film Industry Is A Great Industry, With Infinite Possibilities For Good And Bad. Its Primary Purpose Is To Entertain People. On The Side, It Can Do Many Other Things. It Can Popularize Certain Ideals, It Can Make Education Palatable. But In The Long Run, The Judge Who Decides Whether What It Does Is Good Or Bad Is The Man Or Woman Who Attends The Movies.

I Never Waste Time Looking Back.

We Must Do That Which We Think We Cannot.

Everyone Has The Right To Work, To Free Choice Of Employment, To Just And Favorable Conditions Of Work And To Protection Against Unemployment.

When You Know To Laugh And When To Look Upon Things As Too Absurd To Take Seriously, The Other Person Is Ashamed To Carry Through Even If He Was Serious About It.

There Is Nothing To Regret, Either For Those Who Go, Or For Those Who Stay Behind — Only An Inheritance Of Good Accomplishment To Be Lived Up To By Those Who Carry A Loving Memory In Their Hearts.

No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent.

Do Not Be Afraid Of Mistakes, Provided You Do Not Make The Same One Twice.

Many People Will Walk In And Out Of Your Life, But Only True Friends Will Leave Footprints In Your Heart

You Do The Things That Need To Be Done According To Priority.

Up To A Certain Point It Is Good For Us To Know That There Are People In The World Who Will Give Us Love And Unquestioned Loyalty To The Limit Of Their Ability. I Doubt, However, If It Is Good For Us To Feel Assured Of This Without The Accompanying Obligation Of Having To Justify This Devotion By Our Behavior.

Obedience May Have Its Uses, But It Is No Substitute For Willing, Uncoerced Co-operation.

One Of The First Things We Must Get Rid Of Is The Idea That Democracy Is Tantamount To Capitalism.

If You Have Any Interests You Can Gain A Wider Audience For Those Interests While The Goldfish Bowl Is Yours!

Each Of Us Has... All The Time There Is. Those Years, Weeks, Hours, Are The Sands In The Glass Running Swiftly Away. To Let Them Drift Through Our Fingers Is Tragic Waste. To Use Them To The Hilt, Making Them Count For Something, Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

At Any Age It Does Us No Harm To Look Over Our Past Shortcomings And Plan To Improve Our Characters And Actions In The Coming Year.

Home-making Today Should Have A Background Of Scientific Training Because Only In This Way Can Real Efficiency Be Achieved. The Average Girl Wants To Be Able To Keep Her House With The Least Possible Strain, And In Order To Do This She Must Have Good Training. This Can Best Be Achieved By Taking A Good Course In Home Economics.

I Don't Know Much About Capitalism, But I Do Know About Democracy And Freedom, And If Capitalism May Change In Many, Many Ways, I'm Not Really Very Much Interested In Capitalism.

Mahatma Gandhi I Would Say Had Perhaps A Greater Spiritual Quality Whereas Winston Churchill Had Besides The Courage, Ability And Above Everything Else, The Ability To Put Into Words What His People Felt So That He Could Always Lead Them. And My Own Husband I Think Had Great Patience, Which You Need In A Democracy Because You Have To Come To Do Fundamental Things, You Have To Have The Patience To Have People Educated; And Then I Think He Had A Deep Interest In Human Beings As Human Beings.

Those Who Attack Always Do So With Greater Fervor Than Those Who Defend.

I Have Never Felt That Anything Really Mattered But Knowing That You Stood For The Things In Which You Believed And Had Done The Very Best You Could.

If It's A Man's Game So Decidedly That A Woman Would Be Soiled By Entering It, Then There Is Something Radically Wrong With The American Game Of Politics.

Too Often The Great Decisions Are Originated And Given Form In Bodies Made Up Wholly Of Men, Or So Completely Dominated By Them That Whatever Of Special Value Women Have To Offer Is Shunted Aside Without Expression.

When Life Is Too Easy For Us, We Must Beware Or We May Not Be Ready To Meet The Blows Which Sooner Or Later Come To Everyone, Rich Or Poor.

On The Whole Our Armed Services Have Been Doing Pretty Well In The Way Of Keeping Us Defended, But I Hope Our State Department Will Remember That It Is Really The Department Of Achieving Peace.

It Is Always Disagreeable To Take Stands. It Is Always Easier To Compromise, Always Easier To Let Things Go. To Many Women, And I Am One Of Them, It Is Extraordinarily Difficult To Care About Anything Enough To Cause Disagreement Or Unpleasant Feelings, But I Have Come To The Conclusion That This Must Be Done For A Time Until We Can Prove Our Strength And Demand Respect For Our Wishes. We Cannot Even Be Of Real Service In The Coming Campaign And Speak As A United Body Of Women Unless We Have The Respect Of Men And Show That When We Express A Wish, We Are Willing To Stand By It.

I Have Often Thought That Less Is Expected Of The President Of A Great Corporation Than Of An American Wife.

There Is A Desire For Progress In The Hearts Of All Men, And It Is The Sense Of Frustration And Inability To Move Forward That Brings Violent Revolution.

Before We Can Make Friends With Anyone Else, We Must First Make Friends With Ourselves.

You Can Never Really Live Anyone Else's Life, Not Even Your Child's. The Influence You Exert Is Through Your Own Life, And What You've Become Yourself.

Transcendentalism

I Shall Either Find A Way, Or Make One (attributed)

No One Can Insult You Without Your Permission.

Nothing Alive Can Stand Still, It Goes Forward Or Back. Life Is Interesting Only As Long As It Is A Process Of Growth; Or, To Put It Another Way, We Can Only Grow As Long As We Are Interested.

A Democratic Form Of Government, A Democratic Way Of Life, Presupposes Free Public Education Over A Long Period; It Presupposes Also An Education For Personal Responsibility That Too Often Is Neglected.

All Of Life Is A Constant Education.

The Word Communist, Of Course, Has Become A Rallying Cry For Certain People Here Just As The Word Jew Was In Hitler's Germany, A Way Of Arousing Emotion Without Engendering Thought.

It Is A Brave Thing To Have Courage To Be An Individual; It Is Also, Perhaps, A Lonely Thing. But It Is Better Than Not Being An Individual, Which Is To Be Nobody At All.

I Do Not Think I Will Ever Become Deadened, Because I Live In Other People's Lives, I Must Admit There Are Times When It Weighs Medown Because I Can't Do Some Of The Things I Want.

Make The Most Of What You Have, When You Have It, Where You Are.

There Is Nothing To Fear Except Fear It's Self.

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.

Of All The Nations In The Western World, The United States, With The Most Money And The Most Time, Has The Fewest Readers Of Books Per Capita. This Is An Incalculable Loss. This, Too, Is One Of The Few Civilized Nations In The World Which Is Unable To Support A Single Magazine Devoted Solely To Books.

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 Not, For Whatever Reason, Turn His Back On Life." Another "no One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent.

Happiness Is Not A Goal, It Is A By-product. Paradoxically, The One Sure Way Not To Be Happy Is Deliberately To Map Out A Way Of Life In Which One Would Please Oneself Completely And Exclusively.

Life Is Meant To Be Lived.

Somehow We Must Be Able To Show People That Democracy Is Not About Words, But Action.

All The Water In The World Cannot Drown You Unless It Gets Inside Of You.

To Me Who Dreamed So Much As A Child, Who Made A Dreamworld In Which I Was The Heroine Of An Unending Story, The Lives Of People Around Me Continued To Have A Certain Storybook Quality. I Learned Something Which Has Stood Me In Good Stead Many Times - The Most Important Thing In Any Relationship Is Not What You Get But What You Give.

It Seems To Me That I Cannot Afford, As A Self-respecting Individual, To Refuse To Do A Thing Merely Because It Will Make Me Disliked Or Bring Down A Storm Of Criticism On My Head.

The Giving Of Love And Understanding Is An Education In Itself.

The Word Liberal Comes From The Word Free. We Must Cherish And Honor The Word Free Or It Will Cease To Apply To Us.

The Basis Of World Peace Is The Teaching Which Runs Through Almost All The Great Religions Of The World. "love Thy Neighbor As Thyself." Christ, Some Of The Other Great Jewish Teachers, Buddha, All Preached It. Their Followers Forgot It. What Is The Trouble Between Capital And Labor, What Is The Trouble In Many Of Our Communities, But Rather A Universal Forgetting That This Teaching Is One Of Our First Obligations.

Everybody Wants Something.

Life's Not About Expecting, Hoping And Wishing. It's About Doing, Being And Becoming. It's About T Learn From The Mistakes Of Others. You Can't Live Long Enough To Make Them All Yourself.

Choose A Challenge Instead Of Competence

It Is Better To Light A Candle Than Curse The Darkness.

It Isn't Enough To Talk About Peace. One Must Believe In It. And It Isn't Enough To Believe In It. One Must Work At It.

I Could Not At Any Age Be Content To Take My Place In A Corner By The Fireside And Simply Look On.

I Have Always Seen Life Personally; My Interest Or Sympathy Or Indignation Is Not Aroused By An Abstract Cause But By The Plight Of A Single Person...out Of My Response To An Individual Develops An Awareness Of A Problem To The Community, Then To The Country, Then To The World.

I Think That Somehow, We Learn Who We Really Are And Then Live With That Decision.

Strength That Goes Wrong Is Even More Dangerous Than Weakness That Goes Wrong.

If Life Were Predictable It Would Cease To Be Life, And Be Without Flavor.

I Think If The People Of This Country Can Be Reached With The Truth, Their Judgment Will Be In Favor Of The Many, As Against The Privileged Few

What Could We Accomplish If We Knew We Could Not Fail?

If Someone Betrays You Once, It’s Their Fault; If They Betray You Twice, It’s Your Fault.

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.

I Feel Quite Sure That The American People, If They Have Knowledge And Leadership, Can Meet Any Crisis Just As Well As They Met It Over And Over Again In The Past.

Never Allow A Person To Tell You No Who Doesn't Have The Power To Say Yes.

One Of The Best Ways Of Enslaving A People Is To Keep Them From Education... The Second Way Of Enslaving A People Is To Suppress The Sources Of Information, Not Only By Burning Books But By Controlling All The Other Ways In Which Ideas Are Transmitted.

I Have A Great Belief In Spiritual Force, But I Think We Have To Realize That Spiritual Force Alone Has To Have Material Force With It So Long As We Live In A Material World. The Two Together Make A Strong Combination.

Criticism ... Makes Very Little Dent Upon Me, Unless I Think There Is Some Real Justification And Something Should Be Done.

Terrific Minds Focus On Tips; Average Minds Go Over Activities; Little Minds Talk About People Today.

What One Has To Do Usually Can Be Done.

The Greatest Luxury I Know Is Sitting Up Reading In Bed.

If The Use Of Leisure Time Is Confined To Looking At Tv For A Few Extra Hours Every Day, We Will Deteriorate As A People.

Be Confident, Not Certain

Every Age Is An Unknown Country.

Manipulate The Situation To Create The Reality Of Your Desire

Nothing We Learn In This World Is Ever Wasted.

You Must Do The Things You Think You Cannot Do.

Tomorrow Is A Mystery. Today Is A Gift. That Is Why It Is Called The Present.

Life Is Like A Parachute Jump, You've Got To Get It Right The First Time.

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 Should Be Curiosity.

The Future Is Literally In Our Hands To Mold As We Like. But We Cannot Wait Until Tomorrow. Tomorrow Is Now.

If You Must Compromise, Compromise Up.

My Life Can Be So Arranged That I Can Live On Whatever I Have. If I Cannot Live As I Have Lived In The Past, I Shall Live Differently, And Living Differently Does Not Mean Living With Less Attention To The Things That Make Life Gracious And Pleasant Or With Less Enjoyment Of Things Of The Mind.

This Is A Strange, Little, Complacent Country [switzerland], In Many Ways A Usa In Miniature But Of Course Nearer The Center Of Disturbance!

If You Have To Compromise, Be Sure To Compromise Up.

Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

...real Prosperity Can Only Come When Everybody Prospers.

Keep Us At Tasks Too Hard For Us That We May Be Driven To Thee For Strength.

No Leader Can Be Too Far Ahead Of His Followers.

In The Long Run There Is No More Exhilarating Experience Than To Determine One's Position, State It Bravely And Then Act Boldly.

Courage Is More Exhilarating Than Fear And In The Long Run It Is Easier. We Do Not Have To Become Heroes Over Night. Just A Step At A Time, Meeting Each Thing That Comes Up, Seeing It Is Not As Dreadful As It Appeared, Discovering We Have The Strength To Stare It Down.

To Undo A Mistake Is Always Harder Than Not To Create One Originally But We Seldom Have The Foresight. Therefore We Have No Choice But To Try To Correct Our Past Mistakes.

So I Took An Interest In Politics, But I Don't Know Whether I Enjoyed It! It Was A Wife's Duty To Be Interested In Whatever Interested Her Husband, Whether It Was Politics, Books, Or A Particular Dish For Dinner.

Life Has Got To Be Lived - That's All There Is To It.

This Too Shall Pass

What We Must Learn To Do Is To Create Unbreakable Bonds Between The Sciences And The Humanities. We Cannot Procrastinate. The World Of The Future Is In Our Making. Tomorrow Is Now.

Unbreakable Bonds

A Good Leader Inspires People To Have Confidence In The Leader, A Great Leader Inspires People To Have Confidence In Themselves.

If We Do Not Pay For Children In Good Schools, Then We Are Going To Pay For Them In Prisons And Mental Hospitals.

If You Prepare Yourself At Every Point As Well As You Can, With Whatever Means You May Have, However Meager They May Seem, You Will Be Able To Grasp Opportunity For Broader Experience When It Appears. Without Preparation You Cannot Do It.

I Never Met Mahatma Gandhi, But, I Think Everyone Felt They Knew Him Even If They Hadn't Met Him.

Women Are Like Tea Bags.they Do Not Know How Strong They Are Until They Get Into Hot Water.

To A Certain Extent I Don't See Any Real Need For Socialism In The United States Immediately, But Things Change And It May Be That There Will Come A Need For Partial Changes In Our Economy.

Every Time You Meet A Situation You Think At The Time It Is An Impossibility And You Go Through The Tortures Of The Damned, Once You Have Met It And Lived Through It, You Find That Forever After You Are Freer Than You Were Before.

We Have Come To Accept Bigger And Bigger Things As Meaning Greater And Greater Efficiency, More And More Prosperity And More And More Freedom. The Two Do Not Go Together Of Necessity.

I Was Perfectly Certain That I Had Nothing To Offer Of An Individual Nature And That My Only Chance Of Doing My Duty As The Wife Of A Public Official Was To Do Exactly As The Majority Of Women Were Doing.

You Have To Accept Whatever Comes And The Only Important Thing Is That You Meet It With Courage And With The Best That You Have To Give.

A Society In Which There Is Widespread Economic Insecurity Can Turn Freedom Into A Barren And Vapid Right For Millions Of People.

What I Have Learned From My Own Experience Is That The Most Important Ingredients In A Child's Education Are Curiosity, Interest, Imagination, And A Sense Of The Adventure Of Life.

Your Life Is Your Own. You Mold It. You Make It. All Anyone Can Do Is To Point Out Ways And Means Which Have Been Helpful To Others. Perhaps They Will Serve As Suggestions To Stimulate Your Own Thinking Until You Know What It Is That Will Fulfill You, Will Help You To Find Out What You Want To Do With Your Life.

Perhaps The Basic Thing Which Contributes To Charm Is The Ability To Forget Oneself And Be Engrossed In Other People.

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