I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

Write a daily gratitude.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because he wanted to be there. Rather than the British diplomat who didn't want to be there.

It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.

Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.

You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.

Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well.

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.