"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."

"Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world."

"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."

"The giving of love is an education in itself."

"Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."

"So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others."

"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

"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."

"There is a growing wave in this country of fear, and of intolerance which springs from fear. Sometimes it is a religious intolerance, sometimes it is a racial intolerance, but all intolerance grows from the same roots."

"It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do."

"If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively."

"I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.'"

"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."

"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."

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

"Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it."

"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people."

"Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before."

"Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness."

"When you have decided what you believe what you feel must be done have the courage to stand alone and be counted."

"You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority."

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."

"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."

"Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth."

"Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death."

"Actors are one family over the entire world."

"The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may 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 ever were before. If you can live through that, you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide."

"I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country."

"Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?"

"Change means the unknown."

"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."

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."

"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."

"Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?"

"What you don't do can be a destructive force."

"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect."

"No one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone."

"It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation."

"Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."

"Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'"

"All of life is a constant education."

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."