With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

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

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 his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

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.'

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

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.

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

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

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.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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