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What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.
Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'
Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.
Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. I have to - to balance the family ticket.
With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.
By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.
Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.
The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.
If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.
Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.
The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.
In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.
Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.
I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.
Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.
Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.
Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.
A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.
Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.
To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.
I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet.
The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.
Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.
Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.
Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives.
In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.
A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.
I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.
That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.
I wish you power that equals your intelligence and your strength. I wish you success that equals your talent and determination. And I wish you faith.
Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.
We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.
My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
I shall try and effect all that is before me to perform; and God, I think, will surely give me strength for His work so long as He directs my line of duty.
The best patients are the worst patients. Nudge, nudge, nudge. Don't sit back and accept anything that fails to satisfy you. Speak up, protect your interests.
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.
Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.
The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times.
I am contracting continually a debt of gratitude which time will never see canceled. There is a treasury from which it will be repaid, but I do not dispense its stores.
Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)
Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.
Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbons of France, the fleur-de-lis, Scotland her thistle, and Ireland her shamrock.
Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.