No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner

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

There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind

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

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor

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

A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.