Daily Digest

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

“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.'”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

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

“I miss you greatly dear. The nicest time of day is when I write to you. You have a stormier time than I do but I miss you as much, I think. . . . Please keep most of your heart in Washington as long as I’m here for most of mine is with you!”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

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

“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

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

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

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“What you don't do can be a destructive force.”

“Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others."”

“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”

“Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”

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

“What Would You Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail?”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”