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

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

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.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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