“If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.”

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.

I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.

I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.

It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.

No one will ever feel sorry for me.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father’s time, a politician’s home was still his castle.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

Until you find yourself, it’s impossible to lose you.

We lose ourself trying to be enough.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.