"The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything."

"Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important."

"Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little."

"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"Our children must learnto face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the resultsthe whole democratic systemdepends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves."

"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."

"No one from the beginning of time has had security."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

"You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility."

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

"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 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."

"This I know. This I believe with all my heart. 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!"

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

"No leader can be too far ahead of his followers."

"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

"For 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."

"Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done."

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

"Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself."

"You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

"No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."

"In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond."

"There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands."

"If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law."

"When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on."

"Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice."

"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it."

"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."

"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."

"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."

"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."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die."

"The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe."

"More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat."

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."

"I once 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."

"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."