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.

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

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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.

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.

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

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

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

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.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

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

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

What one has to do usually can be done.

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

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

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

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

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

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

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

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

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

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

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

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.'