"Human resources are the most valuable assets..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

“More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.”

“About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.”

“Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it.”

“You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. '”

“One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.”

“Love is the subtlest force in the world.”

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

“They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself”

“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.”