"I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them."

"You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be."

"Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life."

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

"No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within."

"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."

"I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy."

"America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our otherachievements amount to nothing."

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

"Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again."

"I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life."

"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."

"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."

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

"To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for."

"Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be."

"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."

"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."

"Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work and the ability to love others.""

"Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves."

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

"This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people will say. Sooner or later, you are bound to discover that you cannot please all of the people around you all of the time. Some of t hem will attribute to you motives you never dreamed of. Some of them will misinterpret your words and actions, making them completely alien to you. So you had better learn fairly early that you must not expect to have everyone understand what you say and what you do."

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

"We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves " the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal."

"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares."

"The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are."

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

"Understanding is a two-way street."

"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."

"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality."

"It's your life-but only if you make it so."

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

"What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?"

"I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role."

"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."

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."

"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

"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."

"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."

"You always admire what you really don't understand."

"What one has to do usually can be done."

"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."

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

"Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist."

"Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here."