All of life is a constant education.
I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.
We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don’t make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
It’s your life-but only if you make it so.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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