You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

In America, public opinion is the leader

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

Human knowledge hasn't been complete enough to understand the afterlife if it hasn't been through the valley of death.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair.

Can you make your soul embrace the One and not lose it?

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

...so many great truths must be very gently introduced, with voices soft and the truths themselves understated.

I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.