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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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