I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.
Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. 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.
There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
The only joy in this hard life is serving 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.
How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . 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.
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.
...without equality there can be no democracy.
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.
To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times - The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.
it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.
I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.
Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.
As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
There are no have-to's, just choices
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything else, the ability to put into words what his people felt so that he could always lead them. And my own husband I think had great patience, which you need in a democracy because you have to come to do fundamental things, you have to have the patience to have people educated; and then I think he had a deep interest in human beings as human beings.
Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.
We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.
I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.
what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.
A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader,a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.
Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts.
Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)
The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
Some friends leave footprints in your heart
I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.
A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.
You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.
One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.
Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire
Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
